Python is much faster than Java?

[Paul Prescod]

Java and Python implementations vary widely so it is probably not useful
to say that one is always faster than the other. Presuming you used
CPython, the big variable is probably the JVM you used for Java. I would
expect some to be much faster than CPython and some to be much slower.

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 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself
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