Your 10x speed, 90% functionality caution is definitely warranted. I've lost count of how many times I've seen "we run Python/Ruby/Perl/whatever" 3x faster, jus

Your 10x speed, 90% functionality caution is definitely warranted. I've lost count of how many times I've seen "we run Python/Ruby/Perl/whatever" 3x faster, just haven't implemented exceptions and monkey-patching yet. :-)