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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by trynumber9 on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:30PM (#8626142)
Even normal Lua is fast compared to Python, if the shootout games are any bit accurate.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by igouy on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @02:22PM (#8632038)
You are told how the measurements were made -- Are the benchmarks game measurements accurate?

I think these questions are more to the point: Were the Python programmers as skilled as the Lua programmers? Do the programs do anything like the things your programs do?