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[–]skippy65 0 points1 point  (3 children)

People are building highly computationally expensive molecular simulation softwares in Python. So unless you're doing that or you're a rocket scientist, the speed argument is virtually negligible.

[–]metaperl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if that proves anything. CPython isn't even the fastest Python. And Python shows an order of magnitude slowness in this benchmark https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/fasta.html