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 ...
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, ...