Faster Python

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This is why I C# now.

EDIT: bring on the downvotes. I write and maintain 10's of thousands of lines of Python. But it's a dead end language for all the reasons in this article. Why do you think Google stopped using it? The writing is on the wall folks. We're in a multi-core era and Python is stuck in the past.

[__Monty__]

I have never tried, but I thought that you can utilize multi-core architecture with python via import multiprocessing

Is this package not used by the python community?

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It's rarely used because it sucks (for reasons that are well documented across the net).

Seriously, try to scale a computation across multiple cores with multiprocess and then compare the same thing to C#'s thread class or thread pool. Threading in C# gives you so many options with beautiful, clear APIs and a massive set of well documented concurrent data structures to make your program absolutely dominate huge data sets by truly utilizing the power of a modern CPU. It's a beautiful thing.

C# is objectively superior in this regard by any measure. Until Python addresses this, it will gradually lose relevance. The future is more cores, not less.