So CPython think performance is about politics, but tell you what, it's also about competition. Every new Ruby release has some kind of performance tweak, Rubin

So CPython think performance is about politics, but tell you what, it's also about competition. Every new Ruby release has some kind of performance tweak, Rubinius got rid of GIL entirely, Nodejs and V8 is significantly faster than pure Python, Go is one of the fastest.