Top parent was flagged and can't be seen now. But stock Python 2.7 code can be run under PyPy and it's very fast if speed is a concern. PyPy3 is in beta essentially so that's not a production-ready option if you're into Python3.
I'm a Python2 programmer who is making my "Python3 transition" over to Go. So I don't have much attachment to it, but Python code isn't slow. I'm moving because of the language leadership towards conservatism towards the language which is my philosophy rather than feature-creep and technical churn.
The CPython implementation is, and it's still always been fast enough for everything I've written, so the meme is slightly overblown as far as I'm concerned.
I'm a Python2 programmer who is making my "Python3 transition" over to Go. So I don't have much attachment to it, but Python code isn't slow. I'm moving because of the language leadership towards conservatism towards the language which is my philosophy rather than feature-creep and technical churn.
The CPython implementation is, and it's still always been fast enough for everything I've written, so the meme is slightly overblown as far as I'm concerned.