What? No. The c in cpython was not meant to signal performance. The c was added after alternative implementations were created to mean "the original/reference i

What? No. The c in cpython was not meant to signal performance. The c was added after alternative implementations were created to mean "the original/reference implementation". Python's competitors perl ruby and php are likewise interpreters implemented in c and are equally slow. Anyway, what alternative did they have to implement a bytecode interpreter? C is portable and fast enough, especially with computed goto extension.