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 ...

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python.

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 ...

Python is unique among scripted languages in that it can bind to compiled languages, such as C and C++. This is helpful for developers who want the low-level performance and speed offered by C and C++ ...

Programming languages: Julia touts its speed edge over Python and R Benchmarks suggest programming language Julia may be the best choice for big-data analysis using CSV format files.

ABBYY's NeoML 2.0 adds support of the Python programming language and offers 50% faster performance than other popular open-source machine learning libraries. The considerable speed improvements ...