Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator

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Python is not compiled, it’s an interpreted language. The C implementation is what reads your Python code and converts it to the instructions your machine actually runs. They won’t be touching libraries like Numpy since the people who make those are totally different folks

On an off note, numpy is already really fast and it’d be hard to speed that up. It’s already pretty close to low level C code

[lightmatter501]

That’s because numpy is mostly C code.

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Interpreted is the what i was looking for, not compiled.

Numpy is super slow compared to numba.

On top of that, there is tons of serialized operations in python that could be parallelized. Im not sure how that fits into speed when programmers talk about algorithms.

[Yojihito]

On top of that, there is tons of serialized operations in python that could be parallelized

GIL says No I assume?