Earlier this year, Google's Python engineers launched a new project called Unladen Swallow. They aimed to make Python execution performance five times faster by leveraging the Low Level Virtual ...

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PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter, and it runs many times faster on some Python programs. Python has earned a reputation for being powerful, flexible, and easy to work ...

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...