Why making Python faster isn’t easy Python’s performance has little to do with being an interpreted language, as opposed to one compiled ahead of time to native machine code.

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Enter PyXL, a project to run Python directly in hardware for maximum speed. What’s the deal with PyXL? “It’s actual Python executed in silicon,” notes the project site.