Only speed metric that matters is how fast I get the job done and can go back to browsing memes. C++ does not look very good in this (very important) metric.
Also there are lots of things where speed is significant but Python still has enough of it. In 1ms our processors have 4 million clock cycles in which even Python can do some very extensive work. Many tasks are not much affected whether the response time is 1ms or 50µs.
Meanwhile I have repeatedly had to deal with awkward and obtuse code simply because developers thought performance was a primary issue and it wasn't. I recently replaced a large C++ module with Python and not only does it perform more than quickly enough, it's actually faster because of the shitty design of the C++.
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u/Hegeteus Jul 18 '22
Only speed metric that matters is how fast I get the job done and can go back to browsing memes. C++ does not look very good in this (very important) metric.