Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists / lypanov.net> writes:

> On Feb 7, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Ville Mattila wrote:
>>     No, you can choose whatever is most suitable for your needs. I 
>> just say
>>     that you shouldn't be surprised that interpreted language cannot 
>> compete
>>     with bytecode language. It's meanigfull to complaint that ruby is 
>> slower
>>     than python or perl... Good expample about this is the recent CSV 
>> thread.
>
> just a technical correction, python at the
> very least is already bytecode based. it just
> doesn't have a very fast / jitt'ing vm.

  Thanks for correction. I didn't know that. Has python always had bytecode
  or was it added recently?

 - Ville