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 ...

PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter, and it runs many times faster on some Python programs. Python has earned a reputation for being powerful, flexible, and easy to work ...

The beta version of PyPy 2.0 has been released, and adds support for ARM CPUs and CFFI compatibility. The PyPy Status blog says that “this release is not a typical beta, in a sense the stability is ...

PyPy 2.4, aka Snow White, has been released with significant performance enhancements and bug fixes. PyPy already has a reputation as being the way to get better performance from Python programs, ...

Antonio Cuni, who is a longtime Python performance engineer and PyPy developer, gave a presentation at EuroPython 2025 about "Myths and fairy tales around Python performance" on the first day of the ...

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, ...

The most promising project that will hopefully enable Python in the web-browser that I have found is emscripten. It uses LLVM to compile C-code to LLVM bitcode, and then compiles that to javascript.