>I'd like to see the numbers to back this up. They'll both use the same runtime.
>
>> In fact, IronPython runs faster on .NET than the traditional C implementation does(!).

Craig,

Maybe I wasn't too clear regarding this. What I meant was that the .NET implementation is faster than the Win32 implementation (which is written in C). The article that backs this is up is here: http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/

Eyvind.