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After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

A new open source Microsoft project, Pyjion, improves the Python language’s speed by augmenting its stock interpreter with a JIT derived from Microsoft’s CoreCLR project. Python’s standard-issue ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, has unveiled upgrades to PyKX, its Python-first interface for kdb+. PyKX 3.0’s hybrid architecture ...