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> X is faster than python for Y I feel that this statement is true for most values of X and Y. I've yet to find a mainstream language that's slower than python

> X is faster than python for Y I feel that this statement is true for most values of X and Y. I've yet to find a mainstream language that's slower than python, or a task at which python is truly the most performant.

josefx 4y ago
You can use the quantum supremacy argument and claim that python is the fastest at being python.
- dmd 4y ago
  Except even that's not true, if you consider that, canonically, "python" means CPython -- and PyPy is faster!
cutler 4y ago
Raku is slower.