Why python is slow?

Jimmy (xiaoke) Shen
1 min readApr 19, 2020

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Before reading this article, please read this one first:

why python is popular?

From a nice article [2], we have some top theories.

Here are the top theories:[2]

It’s the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)

It’s because its interpreted and not compiled

It’s because its a dynamically typed language

I will try to clean up my mind and write it up if I have time later. I feel answers to questions should be concise. And concise answers build upon deep understanding. The references helped me a lot and hope it will help the readers also.

Thanks for reading.

Reference

[1]https://towardsdatascience.com/why-python-is-not-the-programming-language-of-the-future-30ddc5339b66

[2]https://hackernoon.com/why-is-python-so-slow-e5074b6fe55b

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