Other differences between the two languages involve performance. Python is generally slower to execute than other languages, including C and C++, although its performance can be increased by ...

However, because sharing data between Python ... about CPython’s internals. Further, as with all previous attempts to remove the GIL, the PEP 703 changes would result in a performance hit ...

Speed in the Core Python (CPython) is one of the reasons why other implementations have emerged, such as Pyston. Its lack of performance partly explains why Python has gravitated towards data ...