title: BeautifulSoup with Jython
body: <p>I just tried to run BeautifulSoup (3.1.0.1) with Jython (2.5.1) and I was amazed to see how much slower it was than CPython. Parsing a page (<a href="http://www.fixprotocol.org/specifications/fields/5000-5999" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.fixprotocol.org/specifications/fields/5000-5999</a>) with CPython took just under a second (0.844 second to be exact). With Jython it took 564 seconds - almost 700 times as much.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone confirm this result? It's doesn't seem reasonable for Jython to run 700 times slower than CPython. Perhaps something is wrong with my setup.</p>
  
  <p>[Edit] Here's the code I used to test this (naturally I downloaded the above mentioned HTML file):</p>
  
  <pre><code>import time
  from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  data = open("fix-5000-5999.html").read()
  start = time.time()
  soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
  print time.time() - start
  </code></pre>