[formerly_proven]

> I would say, there is no such thing as fast Python code. It's not the purpose of the language.

It's not the purpose of the language but (business) needs don't generally care about such things. Sometimes you can't rewrite in rust for a variety of reasons and then it can pay off to know what's faster rather than slower in CPython.

[rglullis]

But you can just have your python code calling a C/Rust library binding, which has been the acceptable answer for "how to make this python code faster?" since the beginning of time.