Python is extremely slow for some tasks. I was surprised to discover how slow when I ran some benchmarks, despite having used python for many years at the time.

Python is extremely slow for some tasks. I was surprised to discover how slow when I ran some benchmarks, despite having used python for many years at the time. It has been improving lately, but here is a blog post I made on the topic quite a few years ago that has some interesting comparisons: https://gist.github.com/vishvananda/7a2f1942d0e9ffff4093 https://gist.github.com/vishvananda/7a2f1942d0e9ffff4093