>Still, a toy language... Not sure what is the effective definition of "toy language". >...focusing on a particular benchmark can most likely easily beat any

>Still, a toy language... Not sure what is the effective definition of "toy language". >...focusing on a particular benchmark can most likely easily beat any other high-level language. I was just curious to understand the performance difference so I have tried fib(40) on both BIPLAN and python side. How can python be THAT slow? It is a huge waste of energy and people's time.