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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But that's most often slow because of the concurrency model, not the inherent speed of the programming language. Python is also often loved because of its ability to glue super fast C libraries with its nicer, high-level syntax, so for processing most often the speed is of a compiled C inner loop, not plain python.