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Exciting developments in the next Python version are being observed while a score of bug fixes reach the most widely used Python builds

Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code.

KTSimage / Getty Images At the Python Language Summit held at PyCon 2021 this week, Python language creator Guido van Rossum unveiled near-term and long-term plans for making Python faster—anywhere from two to five times faster, and possibly more. The Python language already has many ways to run faster, from alternate runtimes like PyPy to wrapping modules written in C/C++. But almost none of these methods involves speeding up CPython itself—the reference implementation of Python, written in C, that is the most widely used version of the language. [ The short-term plan is...

'I got bored sitting at home while retired ... I chose to go back to my roots' Tim Anderson Thu 13 May 2021 // 16:05 UTC Share Copy Language Summit Python creator Guido van Rossum this week told attendees at the Language Summit that he hopes to double performance in version 3.11. The programming language is relatively slow in its default CPython implementation, though there are many ways to make it faster including performance-oriented alternatives like PyPy. Historically Van Rossum had seemed unconcerned about Python performance, favouring the simplicity of a compiler...