Python is slow

[Paul Rubin]

"inhahe" <inhahe at gmail.com> writes:
> planets are spherical (all implementations of Python are not natively 
> compiled (and you said for whatever definition)), and b) It's a far cry to 
> imagine a planet coming into being that's not spherical (a language as 
> dynamic as Python, or most other scripting languages, would be either 
> extremely difficult or impossible to make a native compiler for).

There are native Python compilers, see psyco and pypy.