Python has never been as speedy as C or Java, but several projects are in the works to get the lead out of the language.

Nuitka Rather than replace the Python runtime, some teams are doing away with a Python runtime entirely and seeking ways to transpile Python code to languages that run natively at high speed.

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 ...

Overview The right Python libraries can dramatically improve speed, efficiency, and maintainability in 2025 ...

Python use is surging in data science, thanks to its versatility and its ease of use. But as an interpreted language, Python code can be quite slow, especially compared to hand coded C++. That’s what ...

Overview: Python remains reliable for general programming, web development, and data analysis.Mojo offers high-speed ...

Intel Vtune provides line-by-line source code profiling to help find and correct issues causing performance hotspots or bottlenecks in Python as well as C and C++ source. Many data scientists already ...

The numerical and scientific computing capabilities of high-performance Python now extends to machine learning and data analytics.

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 ...