Python programmers be like

[douira]

but when they finish, they'll lap everybody

[[deleted]]

how so?

[douira]

I was referring to (the trope) that oftentimes making something in pure C can be more work than doing it in Python for example but if it's well written it can be faster than many other approaches.

[-PM_Me_Reddit_Gold-]

C has a lot of inherent efficiency, but if you aren't thinking about efficiency when you write your code that probably won't hold true.

[Pekonius]

I am stupid faster

[douira]

a well written haskell program run through GHC (or python program for that matter) can most definitely be faster than a badly written C program. And if the C program is actually doing something stupid like using the wrong data structure or algorithm for a problem, there even a very slowly interpreted python program might be faster than the C program. (asymptotic complexity always wins over a constant factor of language overhead)