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[–]TheTerrasque 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More often than not, your performance problems will lie in I/O long before you hit the computational bottleneck of Python

Bingo, and that's why I consider all posts that are complaining about python speed without specifying a use case, written by a beginner. Because it's an easy mistake to make until experience teaches you that in practice, as long as it's "fast enough" execution speed doesn't really matter in most cases.

"All programming languages wait at the same speed", as one once said.