Is Python FASTER than C++??
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I'm currently learning C++, so apologies if this is a dumb question. In the attached screenshot, I ran a small experiment out of curiosity. I iterated the word "hi" with its iteration value 100,000 times on both C++20 and Python 3.11.0 & counted how long it would take to finish for each language. I was absolutely baffled at how much faster python ran in this experiment! To ensure that this was not a compiling problem or anything related to the compiler OR console, I reran the experiment with basically the same results.
Results in image:
Python iterated 100,000 times in 2991034300ns which is 2.99 seconds.
C++ iterated 100,000 times in 15212170900ns, which is 15.21 seconds.
Why is this happening? Is it because Python is simply faster than C++ now??

