No science to tell if C programs in general are fster than Python... best we have is benchmark games, some rewites, and gut.
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Around 19:40; he says that C memory model is PDP-11 and strict memory layout rules inhibit optimization of C programs... something that is not a problem with Rust. https://invidious.xyz/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM