python versus c++ speed revisited

[Eduardo Cobian]

Hello,

I continue studying artificial intelligence and part of that is python programming (tensorflow).

I am reading a book now that talks about improving speed and it seems that nowadays python and c++ are much closer regarding speed.

Pure python is much slower but when combining numpy vector operations with cython (or numba) things improve a lot.

You can take a look at this article to see what you make of it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-python-code-beat-c-speed-alexander-pletzer

I mention this cause I think python should be the language to use as opposed to c++.

Cheers.