Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Python is 71x Slower, Uses 75x More Energy, Than C" video.

Thanks for pointing this out. I know a certain switch company that, using Linux and C++ for their operating software, decided to code "non-critical functions" in Python. They were pretty good at it, incorporating the Python interpreter in the OS and getting pretty good at translating between the languages. After a while, they announced a new policy, namely going back and rewriting python programs in C/C++. This was due to customer complaints about how sluggish the OS was. The moral of the story was that, Python wasn't wasting time in any critical functions. It was wasting time *everywhere*, and general slowness was the result.
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