As others mentioned, it's generally an easy choice to write one-off data processing & analysis stuff in. I can get all the multithreading support I need with th

As others mentioned, it's generally an easy choice to write one-off data processing & analysis stuff in. I can get all the multithreading support I need with the multiprocessing library. For me this always just consists of reading a bunch of files in and then doing some basic aggregation on them. Years ago I benchmarked Python vs. PyPy and found no real benefit to it. Here is the link to that if you'd like to read it: http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/unpickling-buffers.html http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/unpickling-buffers.html