Perhaps some of you may be interested in this entry from Miguel de Icaza's web log:
Python running fast on .NET http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2003/Dec-09.html
Yeah, but alas Miguel's mis-informed. A reasonable reimplementation of core python (without all the grotty bits that arguably throw in the huge speed hit) should run that benchmark at about 20x python's base speed, and the parts of Python that will give .NET serious fits haven't been implemented. Python's method semantics don't match .NET's semantics in a number of performance-unpleasant ways.
Wasn't there supposed to be a Python/Parrot challenge this month?
Nope. The python source and bytecode for the challenge is due by the end of the month, with the actual challenge taking place at OSCON 2004.
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