I learned a lot from the other thread 'Is a "real" C-Python possible?' about Python performance and optimization. I'm almost convinced that Python's performance is pretty good for this dynamic language although there are areas to improve, until I read some articles that say IronPython is a few times faster. I find it amazing that something that's written in C and runs on hardware is slower than a .NET app that runs on CLR as managed code:
http://www.python.org/~jeremy/weblog/031209a.html http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2005/03/28/402940.aspx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
