Paul Boddie wrote: > Well, it is important to make distinctions when people are wondering, > "If Python is 'so slow' and yet everyone tells me that the way it is > executed is 'just like Java', where does the difference in performance > come from?" Your responses seemed to focus more on waving that issue > away and leaving the whole topic in the realm of mystery. The result: > "Python is just like Java apparently, but it's slower and I don't know > why."
Short answer: Python doesn't have a Just In Time (JIT) compiler. While Java's JIT optimizes the code at run time Python executes the byte code without additional optimizations. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
