This sponsored post covers how Intel Performance Libraries are working to ramp up python performance. Surprise! Python* is now the most popular programming language, according to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth ...

Python use is surging in data science, thanks to its versatility and its ease of use. But as an interpreted language, Python code can be quite slow, especially compared to hand coded C++. That’s what ...

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++ ...

Cython. Cython (C extensions for Python) is a superset of Python, a version of the language that compiles to C and interfaces with C/C++ code. It’s one way to write C extensions for Python ...

Python is now the most popular programming language, according to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of programming languages, ahead of C++ and C. Recent Intel Distributions for Python ...

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

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 ...

For Python versus other languages, the place where it really gets interesting is that the unit time per solution is lower than it is with languages like Java, C++ or C. Yeah, it’s interpreted (ish).

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the ...

Python's never been as speedy as C or Java, but several projects are in the works to get the lead out of the language. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...