We all know that python is slower than compiled languages like C. But what can you do about it? Jake VanderPlas, director of research in the physical sciences for the university of Washington's eScience institute, digs into python's internals to explain how it works and what program design choices you can make to use python efficiently.
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Tuesday May 13 2014, @06:35PM
I figure the real reason why Python is slow is that nobody is throwing lots of decent programmers and resources at making it fast:e rformance_evolution [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine#P
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchm ark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=python3&data=u64 [debian.org]
That said it's strange it's slower than normal PHP: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchm ark.php?test=all&lang=php&lang2=python3&data=u64 [debian.org]
The benchmarks are old but I think my point still remains true :).