MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler

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"Python has long been one of—if not the—top programming languages in use. Yet while the high-level language’s simplified syntax makes it easy to learn and use, it can be slower compared to lower-level languages such as C or C++.

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hope to change that through Codon, a Python-based compiler that allows users to write Python code that runs as efficiently as a program in C or C++. ..."

"What is Codon?

Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 10-100x or more, on a single thread. Codon's performance is typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of C/C++. Unlike Python, Codon supports native multithreading, which can lead to speedups many times higher still." (Source)

MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler - IEEE Spectrum Codon lets users run Python code as efficiently as C or C++