IDG A live profile of a running Python script. Stats are sampled from the Python executable and can be sorted according to overall time or percentage of time used. Py-Spy takes a different approach.

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 ...

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 ...

The concept of an “accelerated Python” is relatively new, and it’s made Python worth another look for Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

The first step would be to compile the application with different flags, such as –O and –O3. Then write and execute a Python script that uses the options available. The results from the Python script ...

Its lack of performance partly explains why Python has gravitated towards data science and machine learning, where many workloads are handed off to GPUs. The other reason for its rise in these ...