Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that adds ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had ...

The multitude of Python tools makes for many choices and many potential pitfalls. Streamline your AI projects by ...

In this special guest feature, Rob Farber writes that Intel’s High Performance Python distribution offers a significant boost to applications performance, even without code changes. Intel recently ...

Cloud computing platforms have become very important in recent years for a wide variety of purposes, from serving websites through to scientific analysis, and the BBC has been an enthusiastic adopter ...