Java 20xfaster then Python !!??

[Jeff Sandys]

I think it is more interesting how long it takes to write 
the code.  In this example the test script took 2-4 hour 
to write in Python and 7-18 hours in Java:
http://www.ipd.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf

Not all programs are purely computational like the shootout 
benchmarks, for some things that computers do Python is faster 
than Java:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/python-vs-java.html

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

Axel Kowald wrote:
> I just had a look at these very detailed benchmark tests,
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/, and I was surprised 
> to see that often java is 20 times faster than python !!