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 ...

Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together. After much debate, the Python Steering Council intends ...

Despite this obvious gap, the Core Python (CPython) development team decided to release the new versions due to a serious memory leak issue affecting 3.10 and earlier that makes 3.10.2 "highly ...

Python 3.11 is on average 1.25x faster than 3.10 due to the introduction of Faster CPython. Faster CPython is a Python acceleration project launched by Mark Shannon in 2020 with the goal of ...

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 ...