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Easy answer: it's not. On most benchmarks it's on par with Python, PHP, Ruby, etc, some are faster on one, others on some other test.
>once I got over the "oh my god it's full of whitespace" thing
What full of whitespace? Python has as much (or as little) whitespace as normally intended Perl, Ruby, C, etc.
What it has that they don't have is significant whitespace.
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Easy answer: it's not. On most benchmarks it's on par with Python, PHP, Ruby, etc, some are faster on one, others on some other test.
>once I got over the "oh my god it's full of whitespace" thing
What full of whitespace? Python has as much (or as little) whitespace as normally intended Perl, Ruby, C, etc.
What it has that they don't have is significant whitespace.