> The point I am trying to make is that, Python with C extensions can be as considerably[1] performant as C code for network or memory bound tasks. You don't m

> The point I am trying to make is that, Python with C extensions can be as considerably[1] performant as C code for network or memory bound tasks. You don't make that point. You instead make the point that calling C code with glue code is slower than C code alone, and the performance hit of using Python as glue code in your case is a 2x slowdown.