how fast is Python?

[Mark Carter]

cartermark46 at ukmail.com (Mark Carter) wrote in message 

> It was discovered that uncompiled VB code in VB 6.0 ran at the same
> speed as VBA code in Excel. It was half the speed of compiled VB code,
> 5 times the speed of Python, and 1/20th the speed of C++/Fortran.

Although, as the saying goes, there's no such thing as a slow language
- only slow implementations.