Optimized apps and websites start with well-built code. The truth, however, is that you don't need to worry about performance in 90% of your code, and probably 100% for many scripts. It doesn't matter ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...

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 ...

In this special guest feature, Rob Farber writes that Intel’s High Performance Python distribution offers a significant boost to applications performance, even without code changes. Intel recently ...

Overview Memory errors arise when programs demand more memory than the system can provide.Processing data in smaller parts ...

It’s spiffy and convenient, but most everyone who uses Python knows it’s comparatively creaky — orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several parties don’t ...

Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster ...