Python Performance Debate
Discussions center on Python's speed limitations, especially CPython's slowness compared to C or other languages, with debates on whether it's a real issue, mentions of PyPy as a faster alternative, and calls to use other tools for performance-critical code.
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Faster than Python doesn’t mean fast.
Why do you need Python if C is faster?
The problem with python is the lack of speed.
"Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".
Python is slow. Sometimes this matters (pypy can improve speed in many but not all cases).
Python is slow, you can downvote me all you want. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548904
Is being faster than Python considered to be a notable feature?
It sounds like you may not consider anything python can do to be fast, so I'm thinking the latter.
If you want performance don't use Python.
"Write it in C if you need speed" is a mainstream, orthodox view in the Python community. Pypy is largely the result of hard work from a small number of people (same goes for Jython and IronPython).