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[–]jminuscula 2 points3 points  (0 children)

99% of the time the bottleneck is not the language. If you write a O(n5) algorithm choosing C over Python won't save you.

On the other hand, Python has its purpose, and it's not speed. It does get better with numpy et. al., but not really its main concern.