A Due is probably 1000x. Your program isn't even stored in the MCU's flash like it is with the Pythons, it's in an external EEPROM chip. So it has to pull each program instruction from that.

Isn't copied to the RAM either, the main MCU is a normal PIC with 72 bytes of memory. So a Due has 1000x RAM also.

But if you just need to detect some switch and blink some lights, they are fine. BASIC is easy to learn and more than enough for some things. I've heard Basic Stamps are still around in some places, like Disney world.