mk wrote:
Out of curiosity I decided to make some speed comparisons of the same algorithm in Python and C++. Moving slices of lists of strings around seemed like a good test case.
If you use Python to, in effect, call well-written C functions, and most of the computation time is spent in the C functions, then the total time may be less than using C++ to call C or C++ functions that have not been as heavily optimized. (Python is nearly 2 decades old, and several people have perused the code base looking for speedups.)
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