Performance of Application / Is Python overhyped (just like Java)?

[Anand B Pillai]

The answer to the latter question might be found here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=
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Cheers

Anand 
Harald Massa <cpl.19.ghum at spamgourmet.com> wrote in message news:<Xns934E6F1CC3A39cpl19ghumspamgourmet at 62.153.159.134>...
> The last years all the performance bottlenecks in my applications where 
> connected to "waiting for the database" or "waiting for external programms 
> to finish"
> 
> So, if there would be a language running 200times faster than Python, it 
> would just wait longer for the database - or the external application.