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.

Welcome to the Python Speed-Up Benchmark project! The goal of this repository is to explore and compare various methods for accelerating Python code, using the classic N-Body Simulation as our test ...

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 ...

Python is a powerful programming language that is easy to learn and easy to work with, but it is not always the fastest to run—especially when you’re dealing with math or statistics. Third-party ...

Improvements to the next (and future) versions of Python are set to speed it up, slim it down, and pave the way toward even better things. Because Python is a dynamic language, making it faster has ...