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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 languages ...

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 is ...

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-issue ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, has unveiled upgrades to PyKX, its Python-first interface for kdb+. PyKX 3.0’s hybrid architecture ...

Python programming is everywhere…literally. Whether you’re testing algorithms for Google, launching spacecrafts at NASA, or sitting around chatting with friends on Facebook, Python’s simple, elegant ...

Python libraries handle real business tasks like APIs, data analysis, and machine learning at scaleUsing ready-made libraries ...