From: Lennon Day-Reynolds Date: 2004-06-18T06:06:44+09:00 Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout Part of the speedup appears to be from their use of the Psyco JIT compiler for the Python code -- the links to source code for Python end in '.psyco'. I would guess that some of the Ruby code needs to be optimized, as well; for example, in the Array Access test, Ruby places dead last. That's rediculous, and I don't think it's indicative of the array performance for general cases. Lennon