[j_mo]

In all the language comparisons I've found over the years, Python consistently comes out slightly slower, for example:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

Bearing in mind these are probably not even using YJIT, which makes Ruby considerably faster in some scenarios.

[yxhuvud]

Ruby used to be slower though, during the 1.8.7 times. But that was a long time ago now.