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 ...

Want to get better performance with Python? Here's how to use NumPy to toe the 'invisible line' of data and memory transfers and optimize efficiency.

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.

A team of computer scientists recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow -- up to 60,000 times slower than code written in ...