FWIW, you can also make Python execute much faster than Python in many cases, by using PyPy instead of CPython. I've had great success using it to optimize my n

FWIW, you can also make Python execute much faster than Python in many cases, by using PyPy instead of CPython. I've had great success using it to optimize my naively-written scripts. (But in cases where that's still not enough, I'll usually switch to Rust or another AOT-compiled language instead of contorting the script into unreadability.)