Unless we are talking like circa 1999 I don't think I have heard a complaint yet that Python is slow. I'm curious who or where the author heard that from (not specifically the people themselves but the domain they are in).
What I have heard complaints about Python are (and I don't agree with all these points):
* Its not statically typed
* The python 2/3 compatibility
* It has some design flaws: GIL, variable assigning, mutable variables, lambdas, indentation (I don't agree with all these but this is complaints I have heard).
* The plethora of packaging (ie its not unified)
I guess one could argue its slow because it can't do concurrency well but that really isn't raw speed.
Then the author started comparing string processing of programmer time from a study which... doesn't help the authors point at all.
* Python has and will always be fast at string processing and most people know this
* The people that complain about python speed are almost certainly not doing string processing
* I have serious questions about the study in general (many languages have changed quite a bit since then)
What I have heard complaints about Python are (and I don't agree with all these points):
* Its not statically typed
* The python 2/3 compatibility
* It has some design flaws: GIL, variable assigning, mutable variables, lambdas, indentation (I don't agree with all these but this is complaints I have heard).
* The plethora of packaging (ie its not unified)
I guess one could argue its slow because it can't do concurrency well but that really isn't raw speed.
Then the author started comparing string processing of programmer time from a study which... doesn't help the authors point at all.
* Python has and will always be fast at string processing and most people know this
* The people that complain about python speed are almost certainly not doing string processing
* I have serious questions about the study in general (many languages have changed quite a bit since then)