When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had more than one core. In the 1980s and 1990s, software engineers bet heavily on Moore’s Law, which asserts ...

First, it’s a work in progress that currently only supports Python 2.x, and second, it still takes a performance hit for applications running on a single core.

3. Move math to NumPy. If you are doing matrix- or array-based math and don’t want the Python interpreter getting in the way, use NumPy.By drawing on C libraries for the heavy lifting, NumPy ...

Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists. Part of Prentice Hall's PTR Core Series, this book works well as a first Python textbook for ...

So Python still has the GIL, although there is an effort, PEP 703, to allow disabling it. Overcoming the GIL to improve Python performance. There are a couple of ways Python programmers can work ...