What kind of benchmark produced 220 times something faster than Python?
Python and Ruby are resource profligate dynamic languages in comparison to other dynamics langs like Lua and Smalltalk. If you are surprised that someone could come up with a benchmark that disadvantages Python by a factor of 200, then you have a lot of neat reading to look forward to in language implementation and Python internals. For some reason speed is easy for our reptilian brains to grasp at. It's not the be-all end-all of a language.
Python and Ruby are resource profligate dynamic languages in comparison to other dynamics langs like Lua and Smalltalk. If you are surprised that someone could come up with a benchmark that disadvantages Python by a factor of 200, then you have a lot of neat reading to look forward to in language implementation and Python internals. For some reason speed is easy for our reptilian brains to grasp at. It's not the be-all end-all of a language.