Is Python faster and lighter than C++? [closed]

Answer 1

It's the same problem with managed and easy to use programming language as always - they are slow (and sometimes memory-eating).

These are languages to do control rather than processing. If I would have to write application to transform images and had to use Python too all the processing could be written in C++ and connected to Python via bindings while interface and process control would be definetely Python.

Answer 2

I think those stats show that Python is much slower and uses more memory for those benchmarks - are you sure you're reading them the right way up?

In my experience, which is mostly with writing network- and file-system-bound programs in Python, Python isn't significantly slower in any way that matters. For that kind of work, its benefits outweigh its costs.