Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code. At the Python Language Summit held at PyCon 2021 this week, ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...

There is a phenomenon in the Python programming language that affects the efficiency of data representation and memory. I call it the "invisible line." This invisible line might seem innocuous at ...

Faster Python programming: How these developers built Pyston, and where it goes next Your email has been sent Python implementation Pyston aims to speed up the programming language's code for web ...