PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

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, ...

In part one of the tale, Brandt Bucher looked specifically at the CPython optimizations that went into Python 3.11 as part of the Faster CPython project. More of that work will be appearing in future ...

A group around the two Python core developers Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora wants to bring Rust into the standard interpreter CPython, initially for individual modules of the standard library.