Python vs Bash - In which kind of tasks each one outruns the other performance-wise? [closed]

Answer 1

I don't know if this is accurate, but I have found that python/ruby works much better for scripts that have a lot of mathematical computations. Otherwise you have to use dc or some other "arbitrary precision calculator". It just becomes a very big pain. With python you have much more control over floats vs ints and it is much easier to perform a lot of computations and sometimes.

In particular, I would never work with a bash script to handle binary information or bytes. Instead I would use something like python (maybe) or C++ or even Node.JS.