Judging by the top submission being also written in python, I think this just shows how unoptimized OP's original code was rather than how slow the language is.

Judging by the top submission being also written in python, I think this just shows how unoptimized OP's original code was rather than how slow the language is. Not that python is fast, it isn't. And using numpy seems a bit disingenuous anyways "Oh my python program is faster because I use a library that's 95% C"