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Python program faster than C++ program.

I wrote a simple program that generates a random word 10,000,000 times.
I wrote it in python, then in C++ and compared the two completion times. The python script was faster! Is that normal? Why would the python script be faster? I was under the impression that C++ was [generally] faster. What are some of your thoughts?
 
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