Insight into compilers and interpreters for the Python programming language. Their functions and features. Potential applications for these platforms. Created by Guido van Rossum in 1991, Python has ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...