Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

There is a phenomenon in the Python programming language that affects the efficiency of data representation and memory. I call it the "invisible line." This invisible line might seem innocuous at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Python is a core skill set for many coders and IT professionals, and staying current can feel like a second job. The 2023 Complete Python Certification Bootcamp Bundle offers a dozen courses for 2023 ...

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, used its third annual Datanova conference today to announce updates that it says significantly ...