Is python really slow?

Wed May 22 09:36:07 EDT 2002

On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:34:01 -0500, Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com>
wrote:
> For what it's worth, the OP might want to check this out:
> 
>   http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/

    ?? How did Java score higher than Python? Any use for Java I've tried it's
been incredibly slow.

    Mike

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