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Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

Data queries written in Python, a commonly used programming language, can grind data analytics platforms to a crawl, but a new platform may finally solve the Python efficiency problem. Researchers ...