On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Also interesting stuff about the Java comparison. The question remains, > why > > the JVM is so fast and why Python is not as far as JVM? I am sure there > must > > be a ton of info on this over the net :) > > Java is statically typed. Which means that the compiler (and the JIT compiler) has lots of information available to it. Lots of bindings can be done at compile time. Lots of optimizations can be done at compile time. And even more optimizations can be made at runtime. Much of that is just not possible in Python. No amount of compiler improvements and optimizations can change this. navin. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
