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.

Want faster number-crunching in Python? You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, often with only one instruction. Python is not the fastest language, but lack of speed hasn’t ...

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 ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...