Don't expect order-of-magnitude speedups from the next version of Python, but a few key benchmarks show improvement, and every bit adds up With the first beta release of Python 3.6 out in the wild ...

Python multithreading and speed. The problem: Python’s slow overall performance, and its limited threading and multiprocessing capabilities, remain major roadblocks to its future development.

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++ ...

According to van Rossum, Microsoft has funded a small Python team to "take charge of performance improvements" in the interpreted language. Microsoft currently has five core developers who ...

Broader compiler support is driving a resurgence in interest in the nearly 35-year-old C++ programming language, which replaces Python in Tiobe's top 3.