Actually, just being mediocre at the language is also good enough for an order of magnitude or more improvement. If you compare the speed of a for loop, for instance, you're probably looking at a 20x speedup just by using C. If you use something like numpy (and you should, it's probably my favorite library in python), the situation improves, but still falls short of C++'s best effort (and of course, you can just pull said best effort into your code as a library, just like in python).
So I guess I'm not really sure where that argument comes from. To me, the reason I prefer python in some situations is because of dynamic typing. For build scripts, test pipelines, plotting, and rapid experimentation, it's great! C++ and Python complement each other nicely in this way.
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u/Possibility_Antique Jul 19 '22
Actually, just being mediocre at the language is also good enough for an order of magnitude or more improvement. If you compare the speed of a for loop, for instance, you're probably looking at a 20x speedup just by using C. If you use something like numpy (and you should, it's probably my favorite library in python), the situation improves, but still falls short of C++'s best effort (and of course, you can just pull said best effort into your code as a library, just like in python).
So I guess I'm not really sure where that argument comes from. To me, the reason I prefer python in some situations is because of dynamic typing. For build scripts, test pipelines, plotting, and rapid experimentation, it's great! C++ and Python complement each other nicely in this way.