Ahh my point was more that you can score a 17x performance boost with minimal effort rather than any absolute performance advantage over c++. For a c++ compari

Ahh my point was more that you can score a 17x performance boost with minimal effort rather than any absolute performance advantage over c++. For a c++ comparison python would be much better pointing out the productivity advantage it has over the notoriously low productivity of c++ development - rather than competing on execution performance.