Is python very slow compared to C

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Steven D'Aprano>Very slow to do what, compared to what? The decay time
of the tau meson?<

Probably every answer I can give you is wrong for you, so answering is
almost useless... In this thread we have already given the most
pertinent answers to the original question from Diffuse.
I can show you this page, but I think this is useless too for you:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ocaml

And, by the way, this is false:
Robert Hicks>Python is fast enough for just about anything you want to
do with it.<

If you are on a Unix-like OS, then the page about Weave from SciPy can
show you that sometimes Python isn't quick enough.

Bye,
bearophile