> The point is you pay for much of Ruby's metaprogramming, even if you aren't using it. I don't think there has been any meaningful attempt at assessing the pe

> The point is you pay for much of Ruby's metaprogramming, even if you aren't using it. I don't think there has been any meaningful attempt at assessing the performance of Python vs Ruby. If we consider the benchmarks game, their performance is comparable. I assume that PyPy is faster, but whether to consider it representative of Python's general performance is arguable.