title: Does pypy handle threads and sockets quickly compared to hand written C?
body: <p>Does pypy handle threads and sockets quickly compared to hand written C? Compared to normal python?</p>
  
  <p>I would just try it, but the python code in question was written for a small cluster of computers on which I am not an admin. I'm asking here because my attempts to google only provided comparisons to cython, unladen swallow, ect., and I don't want to bug the admin about it if this is unlikely to work.</p>
  
  <p>I don't actually need pypy to be as good at C; I'm looking to use it because right now the interpreter's overhead is completely overshadowing the computation I'm trying to time. I just need pypy to get me in the neighborhood of handwritten C.</p>