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As a non-programmer: when you say slowest, do you mean most verbose? Or, most runtime overhead? Or, something else?


Slowest in runtime performance I'd guess as the CPython runtime isn't really known for its performance. Other projects such as PyPy implement a much faster interpreter/JIT compiler but there are some compatibility quirks to use them.


Runtime; there are things you can do, but generally Python takes more time and memory to do things than other languages/platforms. It got better in 3.11 but AFAIK it's still the slowest.


Thanks.


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