A common workaround is the multiprocessing module ... so some multiprocessing functionality works differently there. Finally, the way Python itself is installed and run on the platform also ...

(The folks at Dropbox have one of the most eye-popping examples of the power of Python optimizations.) In this piece I’ll outline many common Python optimizations. Some are drop-in measures that ...

However, some operations are faster ... stick with the standards until you run performance tests (timeit or profile) and find a problem. Python performance gets a bad rap compared with languages such ...