> Python is pretty performant if you're comparing it to Ruby. ;-) FWIW, neither Python or Ruby are speed kings, but I think that you'll find ruby is on par, or

> Python is pretty performant if you're comparing it to Ruby. ;-) FWIW, neither Python or Ruby are speed kings, but I think that you'll find ruby is on par, or faster than Python in many benchmarks. It is Rails that is renowned for its slowness.