Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

Python often gets a bad rap in terms of performance. Critics often move the goal posts mid-discussion, either unintentionally or simply to get a rise out of Python developers. Here's a typical ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...