dsimcha: > Python and Ruby > are constrained by their dynamic design such that they will likely always be > slow > and there is no room for improvement.
This is the opposite of the truth :-) Being Python slow, there can be ways to speed it up. Being D fast, there's little room from improvement. See unladen swallow project, for example: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ Or Just Psyco: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ Bye, bearophile
