how fast is Python?

[Steve Horsley]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:00:19 +0000, Andrew Dalke wrote:


> Spend a few tens of millions on developing just-in-time compilers
> and program analysis.  That worked for Java.

Have you heard of Jython - python language running on a java VM? It's kind
of double interpreted - the python source is converted to JVM bytecode,
and then the JVM runs it however that JVM runs bytecode. I guess it should
be many times faster than python because of the JVM performance, and
wopuld be interested to hear any comparisons.

Steve