Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

Abstract: In this paper, the performance research on CPython's latest interpreter is presented, concluding that bytecode dispatching takes about 25 percent of total execution time on average. Based on ...

Recently I checked Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) improvements on multiple projects. The results are here. Since PGO showed measurable improvements in compiler/interpreter-like workloads (V8, ...

Supply chains are experiencing a period of significant disruption and challenge that is unlikely to abate in the short term. Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, rising fuel prices and now a looming ...

Python is incredibly popular because it's easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That's about to change in Python 3.11, ...