I've updated the article to reflect the reasons why I pointed at vtables, which, as you say, are very likely incorrect. And no, the article does not say that P

I've updated the article to reflect the reasons why I pointed at vtables, which, as you say, are very likely incorrect. And no, the article does not say that Python was performing faster than the STL. In the first sentence in the "What I Built" section, "Using C, I wrote a handful of lines of C code that took a sorted sequence of 4-byte integers that represented a Twitter user's followers, and I intersected that sequence against thousands of other similar sequences for other Twitter users." I mention C twice, despite it being awful grammar. I wanted to make it clear up front that this wasn't a "Python vs. X" post.