Faster Python: Mark Shannon, author of newly endorsed plan, speaks to The Register

The biggest challenge? "Backwards compatibility of features that we might not even know we have"

Interview  Python creator Guido van Rossum last week introduced a project to make CPython, the official implementation, five times faster in four years. Now Mark Shannon – one of the three initial members of the project – has opened up about the why and the how.…

from The Register