Guido van Rossum aiming to make CPython 2x faster in 3.11
'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...
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