Performance can mean: blazing fast,always completes in the smallest possible time (theoretically anyway). It can also mean, runs in a reasonable time, within th

Performance can mean: blazing fast,always completes in the smallest possible time (theoretically anyway). It can also mean, runs in a reasonable time, within the parameters of the spec. Many times in the later case its faster and easier (in programmer time) to tune/tweak the slow scripting language, than it is to pull out the big guns.