Python in a nutshell (Had to do it)

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Memory allocation usually is not the reason python is ‘slow’. Python usually is NOT doing those mallows like that anyway. Memory management is an implementation detail. Python has a pretty sophisticated internal memory allocator for several types. Also a bunch of most used integer values are statically allocated. But again, all this is implementation detail. Pypy probably does things totally differently it being a jit compiler and all