IronPython separate-but-nearly-equal Van Rossum works in CPython. That is, while in principle he defines the abstract Python language, in practice everyone know that means something like, “the ...

That said, the fact that IronPython has no GIL doesn’t automatically make it faster; some IronPython benchmarks are better than CPython, but others are markedly worse.

Python being my first language, I recently moved to IronPython as my implementation instead of CPython as I wanted access to the .NET libraries. I can't keep track of the whole class library ...

And ditto with its complement, IronPython. IronRuby and IronPython, until November 1, are Microsoft-supported and .Net-targeted versions of the Ruby and Python dynamic programming languages.

Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...