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.

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 ...

A team of computer scientists recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow -- up to 60,000 times slower than code written in ...

A new open source Microsoft project, Pyjion, improves the Python language’s speed by augmenting its stock interpreter with a JIT derived from Microsoft’s CoreCLR project. Python’s standard-issue ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, used its third annual Datanova conference today to announce updates that it says significantly ...