IronPython 2.0 is released

Awesome. I'm really excited to be able to write DLL's in pure python for the CLR, and then hook them up to run in Windows as native-looking apps easily.

Now that there is a Python2.5 equivalent version, they can focus on getting performance out of IronPython, which is already really good:

http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=IP20...

Hah... I am amused by the 4+ thousand percent difference with TryExcept... why is that? (Ipy is slower by 40 times?)