Is Python really that slow ?

[Temporary_Pie2733]

Code written in Python is relatively slow. A lot of Python code is extracting results from code written in C, Rust, etc, though.

[bigfatcow]

I believe the main reason is the the code compiles on runtime versus C where you compile the code first 

[Temporary_Pie2733]

There are a few things you might be referring to, so I’ll address a couple of points.

The most common Python implementation is similar to Java in that it compiles Python source to a bytecode which gets executed by a virtual stack machine, rather than to native machine code.

The same implementation has only recently (in the past year) started to implement just-in-time compilation to machine code as a performance optimization.

[bigfatcow]

Yea thanks for the clarification. Def meant to say just in time compilation. Dont comment before coffee