The update shaves down startup time and memory use, and it introduces improved options for interfacing with and embedding Python into C code A mere three months after the PyPy project released version ...

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Software transactional memory (STM) is an ambitious feature that is being worked on for the PyPy interpreter. STM is an alternative to locking that is meant to eventually replace the (in)famous global ...

Python is incredibly popular because it’s easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That’s about to change in Python 3.11, ...

Agreed. It needs JIT compiling, type inference and speculative optimisation to make dynamic languages like Python fast. There are two performance bottlenecks for naive dynamic language implementations ...