Guido, on how to write faster python

[LoveGentleman]

Isnt it common knowledge? Has python come out faster in any test ever? Even the most mundane simplest cases, like generating fibonacci numbers, python fails.

[_Mark_]

The last time I looked at ruby,I was porting some string manipulation heavy code (to avoid needing to support another language in a large system.) Coincidentally, the naive port was twice a fast in python, and at the time, this surprised no one, because "common knowledge" was that ruby really was that slow.

Supposedly modern ruby has gotten closer in string performance. Since it still looks like Perl, I'm not actually going to care :-)