[JonChesterfield]

> On the contrary, the compiled languages tend to only be faster in trivial benchmarks. In real-world systems the Python-based systems tends to be faster because they haven't had to spend so long twiddling which integers they're using and debugging crashes and memory leaks, and got to spend more time on the problem.

This is an interesting premise.

Python in particular gets an absolute kicking for being slow. Hence all the libraries written in C or C++ then wrapped in a python interface. Also why "python was faster than rust at anything" is headline worthy.

I note your claim is that python systems in general tend to be faster (outside of trivial benchmarks, whatever the scope of that is). Can you cite any single example where this is the case?

[lmm]

> Can you cite any single example where this is the case?

Plenty of line-of-business systems I've seen, but systems big enough to matter tend not to be public. Bitbucket's cloud and on-prem version are the only case I can think of where you can directly compare something substantial between an implementation known to be written in Python and an implementation that's known to be written in C/C++ (and even then I'm not 100% that that's what they use).