Core Python (CPython) developer Mark Shannon shared details about the project to make Python faster at the PyCon 2022 conference this week, where developers also showed off progress on the goal of ...

A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May. March 10 update: The original version of this article reported the speedup to CPython to be as high as 15% with the new interpreter. The CPython development ...

If in time it yields a significant performance boost (5% or more), and doesn’t impose a large management burden on the CPython team or Python’s users as a whole, it’ll become a fully ...

Speed in the Core Python (CPython) is one of the reasons why other implementations have emerged, such as Pyston. Its lack of performance partly explains why Python has gravitated towards data ...

courtesy of the Faster CPython Project. Though it is worth pointing out this likely only applies to pure Python code, and Python itself has never been the fastest programming language out there ...