Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled "Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python", but noted that the title really should be: "Measuring the performance of compilers ...

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May. March 10 update ...

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...

Facebook has open sourced Cinder, Instagram's internal production version of CPython 3.8. Cinder has been developed to improve Python performance, and is now available as a Facebook incubator project.

Today the OpenMP® Architecture Review Board (ARB) announces the formation of an OpenMP Python Language Subcommittee to add Python support to version 7.0 of the OpenMP API specification. At the same ...