>- Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks. Actually

>- Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks. Actually it's slower or comparable that simple Python in most cases. And slower than Java, which also uses a JIT. It being "Machine code" doesn't mean much. The implementation also counts, as do the libs. In Python lots of stuff is delegated to plain old C libs.