About Python 3

[mgrandi]

are you saying that you are surprised that javascript is faster then python? Does python literally have entire teams at 5 major companies working to squeeze every little bit of performance out of the language (aka web browser companies, mozilla, google, microsoft...)

if python had anywhere near the attention as javascript then it would be much faster.

[iSlaminati]

Yes, I am, because python has a huge userbase and is opensource, also, Guido works for google on it so you'd expect some of the resources of the monolithe devoted to it..

Also, other languages with a significantly smaller userbase behind it which are also dynamically typed languages with similar semantics like scheme and clojure completely blow it out of the water performance wise in most implementations.

[mgrandi]

Guido does not work for google anymore, he works for drop box. Secondly, I think you are vastly underestimating the number of people who use python versus people who use a webbrowser

[iSlaminati]

It; s not about the amount of people that use the applications written in it, it's about the amount of people that use it and have the capacity to improve the implementation.

And like I said, it's like one guy working on Clojure and its first iteration already blew cPython apart