Holy Shmoly, Ruby 1.9 smokes Python away! http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/11/28/holy-shmoly-ruby-19-smokes-python-away/
The post is less flaming than the title, fortunately. :-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ If you have multiple CPUs and you want to use them all, fork off as many processes as you have CPUs. [...] If you really want "true" multi- threading for Python, use Jython or IronPython; the JVM and the CLR do support multi-CPU threads. Of course, be prepared for deadlocks, live-locks, race conditions, and all the other nuisances that come with multi-threaded code. -- Guido van Rossum, July 2007 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list