Yes I agree Python is slower natively, but there are some packages that make it more efficient. For example I am now using the NUMPY package by default for array manipulation.

I have tested it, the NUMPY package is about 60% faster than the default array structure. So that helps.

There are also tricks to speed up the code, for example in Python3 you don't need to transform a variable to float, you just declare it like this variable=1.0 so that is automatically a float.

I have found that if you transform a variable into a float with float(x) command it might make it 50% slower.

I am doing research now with an intensive script I wrote, so believe me every bit of efficiency helps, but I guess I should try it in C too to see whether it will speed it up even more.