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by oniTony 4363 days ago
This seems more a survey of compilers than programming languages. Python is represented by 3 different compilers, spanning 2 orders of magnitude in performance: CPython (155x), PyPy (44x), Numba (1.57x). It's hinted that C++ similarly depends on compiler choice:

> although one needs to be careful with the choice of compiler [for C++ and Fortran]