[bip] Bioinformatics Programming Language Shootout, Python performance poopoo'd

[Chris Lasher]

Fourment and Gillings performed a language shootout in the wild west
of bioinformatics.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/82

Python got railed on for performance, particularly in parsing. I feel
more surprised than perhaps I should. They claim the source code is
available at the link below, but it doesn't work for me.

http://www.bioinformatics.org/benchmark/

Oh well, I still love the language.

Chris