Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by fermigier on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:25PM (#25072944)

Python is fast enough for many tasks, including number crunching for which it excels (as long as you are using the right libraries).

Projects like Cython allow to tweak without too much effort the parts of a program that need an extra-boost.

Last but not least, there have been discussions in the Python community in the last weeks of ways to speed up considerably the default (CPython) implementation.

Hopefully, all of this will bear some fruits in the next 2-5 years. Guido will probably help from his new position at Microsoft.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by birdyrooster on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:58PM (#25074933)

Only because libraries have to use C bindings to make it fast enough. I don't think Python performance is good enough when I have to stop writing in the language that we are benchmarking to get good results.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by Radim on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:04PM (#25074215)

> discussions in the Python community in the last weeks of ways to speed up CPython

This piqued my interest. I found this, by Mark Shannon: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/...

Is that what you mean?

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