It’s called the GIL, the global interpreter lock, and Python developers have been trying to remove it from the default implementation of Python for decades now. [ Also on InfoWorld: 11 tips for ...

You can check out the tables below; Python is mostly in the bottom half of rankings when it comes to energy consumption. It couldn’t even complete the Fibonacci task in 24 hours of the cut-off time.

In the meantime, if you find Runtime Broker is using a suspiciously high amount of RAM, try uninstalling any Windows 8 apps you have that utilize live tiles, one at a time.

Python's performance impact is negligible. Dower has proposed PEP-551, last year in August. Early tests suggest the performance impact of adding these two APIs is negligible, "with the vast ...