== Quote from bearophile ([email protected])'s article > 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
Sorry, I misspoke slightly. I meant that these languages will never be in the same league as D, not that they will never be faster than they are now. Of course, they can be made *somewhat* faster, but all the fancy stuff they do at runtime is pretty limiting in terms of performance optimizations.
