I've recently decided to switch from Nexus to MUSHclient, and since Python is the only language I know that works for MUSHclient, I've been wondering about its speed - Lua is hard-coded into MUSHclient, so I'm sure it'd be faster, but how much slower would it be to use Python? It's already an interpreted language, which makes it slow; would it be significantly slower (anything slower than, say 100 milliseconds) than using Lua?

MUSHclient, supposedly, compiles the scripts. Or rather, uses compiled scripts. Python scripts can be compiled.

My main reason for using Lua in my scripts is because it's more portable and works easily under Wine, if you want to use Linux as your OS. Another reason I dumped Python was the indentation requirements. I like doing my own indents and I don't need them to be enforced by the language interpreter, and sometimes my text editor decided to screw up all the indentations and then my code stopped working...