According to van Rossum, Microsoft has funded a small Python team to "take charge of performance improvements" in the interpreted language. Microsoft currently has five core developers who ...

Python is unique among scripted languages in that it can bind to compiled languages, such as C and C++. This is helpful for developers who want the low-level performance and speed offered by C and C++ ...

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.

You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, ... C++, or Fortran in a convenient Python ... Keep this in mind if you plan to benchmark JITed functions against their unJITted ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times ...

ABBYY's NeoML 2.0 adds support of the Python programming language and offers 50% faster performance than other popular open-source machine learning libraries.

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.