I did some recent testing that showed both Lua and LuaJIT-joff (its interpreter-only mode) to be about 2x faster than Python. Both PyPy and full-on LuaJIT were about 10x faster.

Years ago, I even found Ruby to be faster than Python. This was back in the Ruby 2.0 / Python 3.5 days - I'd be interested to know if it's still the case.

If faster language interpreters were included in the tests, the title could be "Python 3.14 is here. How slow is it?"

It would be interesting to test intepreter startup time across various intepreter including Python

In my experience LuaJIT is extremely fast in comparison to Python. Perl is faster, too.