On Dec 19, 10:55 am, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > Regarding the speed of Python3 programs, > they will go faster
"The net result of the 3.0 generalizations is that Python 3.0 runs the pystone benchmark around 10% slower than Python 2.5. " http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html > (Ruby programs are often slower > than Python ones (because Ruby > is a little higher level than Python) As I understand it, that may have been true at one time. But, Ruby 1.9 very significantly sped up the language. While Python has been made slower, Ruby has been made much faster. I am no expert on the subject, I am just going by stuff I have read on web. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
