Holy fuck Python is slow

1.py

count = 0

while (count < 1000000000):
    count = count + 1

1.rs

fn main() {
	let mut count = 0;
	while count < 1000000000 {
		count  += 1;
	}
}

gistfile1.txt

sean@Soyuz:~/rust$ time python 1.py (Python optimizations only speed up loading)

real	7m10.859s
user	7m2.517s
sys	0m4.206s

sean@Soyuz:~/rust$ time ./1 (With -O)

real	0m0.006s
user	0m0.002s
sys	0m0.005s

4 seconds without optimizations.
Pretty sure rust is cheating, turning 10 million in to 10,000,000,000,000,000 takes 10 ms to run.

for i in xrange(1000000000):
    pass

$ time python test.py 

real    0m18.114s
user    0m18.078s
sys     0m0.017s

Python is fast and doesn't cheat!

$ cat loop.c
main()
{
    int x;
    for (x = 0; x < 1000000000; x++) {
    }
}
$ gcc -O3 loop.c
$ time ./a.out

real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

$ cat loop.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

for (my $i = 0; $i < 1000000000; $i++) {

}
$ time perl loop.pl

real    0m30.078s
user    0m30.092s
sys 0m0.000s

$ cat loop.go
package main

func main() {
    for i := 0; i < 1000000000; i++ {
    }
}
$ go build loop.go
$ time ./loop

real    0m0.333s
user    0m0.332s
sys 0m0.000s

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