Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it

Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere near as fast at computation or object manipulation as C or C++, or Java, or Rust, or Go, or … well, the list goes on. Python users have long addressed this problem by performing end runs around it. Want faster math? Use a math library like NumPy or Nu…