how fast is Python?

[Lawrence Oluyede]

"Steve Horsley" <steve.horsley1 at virgin.NO_SPAM.net> writes:

> 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.

Jython faster than Python? We did little test and it doesn't seem, look:
http://tinyurl.com/liix

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