Why is IronPython faster than the Official Python Interpreter
- by Tristan Havelick
According to this:
http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=IP20VsCPy25Perf&referringTitle=IronPython%20Performance
IronPython (Python for .Net) is faster than regular Python (cPython) on the same machine. Why is this? I would think compiled C code would always be faster than the equivalent CLI bytecode.