[SaxonRobber]

This is actually one of the most frustrating parts about using python. You can’t write normal python code that performs well. Instead you have to use the numpy dsl, which I often find unintuitive and too often results in me needing to consult stack overflow. This is very frustrating because I know how I want to solve the problem, but the limitations of the language prevent me from taking the path of least resistance and just writing nested loops.

[pacofvf]

my point is that the benchmark is deceiving, again if you are doing data analytics or ML, then you already are using numpy/pandas/scipy, so thats not a valid argument.

[SaxonRobber]

But it is. A good compiler could unroll my loop and rewrite it with the appropriate vector ops. But that isn’t possible with just python right now.