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In response to c, pypy has been getting ridiculously fast as of late. In some very specific (ie pointless) benchmarks, it can outperform C [1]. And it's only getting faster [2].

[1] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...

[2] http://speed.pypy.org/



Every language has got at least one benchmark saying "We're faster than C".


I was about to post that. Someone once joked, "a language isn't mature until it has a benchmark showing that it is faster than C".


It's good to know that, thanks :). I'll look into PyPy if I ever start doing some serious work in Python.




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