WTF is up with python?

x = 0
while x < 100000000:
  x += 1

the above code takes ~35 seconds to run on my computer. WTF???

>>1
Python on Win32: 26.828s
GCC/MinGW 3.4.2: 0.328s
(and not because of any overhead - verified with 10 iterations)

Python with psyco (dynamic specializator) on Win32: 0.047s

Hint: OWNED! FUCKING OWNED YOU FAGGOT!

Using psyco:


import psyco
psyco.full()
def main():
 #Your code begins here, intact
 x = 0
 while x < 100000000:
   x += 1

Does psyco really run 100M iterations? I doubt it. It shouldn't be faster than C. It most surely detected what I was doing was bullshit and dynamically optimized function main to return None.