I don't think English has any equivalent (but it's a big language so I wouldn't be surprised to find out I'm wrong). We do have a very similar and pretty common idiom though: "slowly-but-surely", often used in the phrase "slowly but surely wins the race". This of course comes from The Hare and the Tortoise in Aesop's Fables.
Another analogy that works in programming terms is comparing the speed of a container ship to the speed of a Ferrari. One of them zips about a lot and goes round corners really fast. The other one takes a while to load up and takes an hour to turn, but it will shift a hell of a lot more cargo, a much greater distance, in the same time.
There's a place for both and the most important thing is knowing the difference; not sticking to one or the other dogmatically.