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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by ptero on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @09:13AM (#15549772)
Can you provide some pointers / examples? This is an honest question -- I am not an expert on bare computation speed, but this (two orders of magnitude vs C++) has not been my experience.
Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by igouy on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:57PM (#15553063)
A broad range -- Python programs are "as-fast-as-C" when they are C :-)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by whyever on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:41AM (#15550490)