I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s.. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

A new open source Microsoft project, Pyjion, improves the Python language’s speed by augmenting its stock interpreter with a JIT derived from Microsoft’s CoreCLR project. Python’s standard ...

Numba transforms your Python code into high-speed machine language, by way of a just-in-time compiler or JIT. There are big advantages to this approach. For one, you’re less hidebound by the ...

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 ...