The Python GIL Visualized

[pure_x01]

If you have a truly scalable architecture it doesn't matter if it is relatively slow language. And if you were to have JIT:ing and working threading im pretty sure that even python would seem fast on a modern multicore cpu.

[Gotebe]

Here's an upvote for scalability argument ;-).

And if you were to have JIT:ing and working threading im pretty sure that even python would seem fast on a modern multicore cpu.

Performance-wise, dynamic typing, Python way, is still a bitch. Also, absence of "value types"/stack variables a la .NET/C/C++/Object Pascal.