What’s faster - C or Python?

What programming language is faster? C or Python? To answer this question, we must conduct a test of some sort.

Commonly, the test conducted involves creating a program that counts to 1 billion in intervals of 1 in each language, timing both programs, and naming the one that finishes first the faster language. When this test is conducted it provides a surprising result. (This only applies if the test was set up and conducted correctly.)

The result is, despite its old age, C. This is mostly because of the fact that it is a compiled language. This means that the code is translated into machine code before execution. Whereas, Python, an interpreted language, executes the code line by line.