The devil is in the detail, especially the "execute python byte code" part, and how often that happens. Partiluarly, it does not happen when you are waiting for

The devil is in the detail, especially the "execute python byte code" part, and how often that happens. Partiluarly, it does not happen when you are waiting for some io, or if you are inside some c library like numpy. But yeah, python is not fast, https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ have quite a lot of benchmarks for those interested.