>This is the program I will be using for demonstration purposes
>Never comes up again for the rest of the post.
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>Let's show you how to profile code.
>Also, here's a bunch of unprofiled suggestions with such precise and helpful comments as "slow" and "fast".
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>Python haters always say, that one of reasons they don't want to use it, is that it's slow. Well, whether specific program - regardless of programming language used - is fast or slow is very much dependant on developer who wrote it and their skill and ability to write optimized and fast programs.
This is so ridiculous it's honestly laughable. It's such an obvious falsehood that the only explanations is either the person is truly this clueless, or else they are wilfully spewing bullshit. A bare metal language like C/C++ will of course let you do things faster than a heavy dynamic language like Python.
The mental gymnastics people do to justify not learning another tool. You know what they say, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
>First rule of optimization is to not do it.
If this person is representative, this explains why computers are hundreds of times faster but most software feels slower than in 1999.