PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter, and it runs many times faster on some Python programs. Python has earned a reputation for being powerful, flexible, and easy to work ...

Python has earned a reputation for being powerful, flexible, and easy to work with. These virtues have led to its use in a huge and growing variety of applications, workflows, and fields. However, ...

JIT-powered Python engine PyPy was already fast, but version 2.4 charges further ahead, thanks to multithreaded optimizations Pythonistas wince when they hear the truism about Python being fast to ...

The results should be interpreted with a large grain of salt. Besides the python/numpy version of the in-place FFT, no particular attempt was made to optimize any of the programs. The above "effort ...

This repo contains PyPy binary wheels for some popular packages. This is still highly experimental. There is a travis cron job which runs daily, to ensure that we build new wheels if there are new ...

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Facebook has released Cinder, used internally in Instagram to improve Python performance, while another faster Python, called Pyston, has released version 2.2 and made the project open source (again).