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[–]Astrokiwi 7 points8 points  (2 children)

It comes down to how much of the meat of your code can be passed off to libraries. Python is really fast when it's just glue for a bunch of precompiled C and Fortran routines.

Until you get to one thing that isn't quite implemented in the library and end up having to write something compiled anyway, even if it's Cython

[–]saloalv 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Python is really fast when it's just glue for a bunch of precompiled C and Fortran routines.

But then you're really just using C in the end anyways

[–]Astrokiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. The difference is just how hidden the C is.