python simply not scaleable enough for google?

[Alain Ketterlin]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely
> time-competitive with hand-written C.

Have a look at
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/downloads/detail?name=Unladen_Swallow_PyCon.pdf&can=2&q=

Slide 6 is impressive. The bottom of slide/page 22 explains why python
is so slow: in most cases "the program is less dynamic than the
language".

-- Alain.