Don't believe me? look here: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow...
perl is not much older, but in a majority of tasks its faster than python, even c-API python. (it even threads!)
Yes it could be engineered around, I assume thats what pypy is doing (although STM is is going to limit performance in a threaded environment)
Javascript was designed to be an embedded language, so it was had to be quick to initialize, and have a simple object model.
Python was designed to be an easy object oriented language.
Being harder to optimize is not being slow. This is an important distinction. If you want to know what that means and the real reason why Python is slow, go read this instead: https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...
Don't believe me? look here: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow...
perl is not much older, but in a majority of tasks its faster than python, even c-API python. (it even threads!)
Yes it could be engineered around, I assume thats what pypy is doing (although STM is is going to limit performance in a threaded environment)
Javascript was designed to be an embedded language, so it was had to be quick to initialize, and have a simple object model.
Python was designed to be an easy object oriented language.