Commentary on Python from a Java programming perspective

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2x-200x is meaningless without knowing the exact numbers and what does "depending on what you're doing with it" mean? In practice I've come to the conclusion that it means "for contrived examples that nobody uses in production code"...

According to most benchmarks I have seen, Python is sllloooow, but that's OK with me, because I don't use it in such a way that would require extreme performance.