Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Get started with the free-threaded build of Python 3.13 True multithreading in Python is here at last! Now, you just need to make it work in your programs.

In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. Yet ...

At Intel research day last week, one of the most impressive things I've seen to date in the parallel programming arena leapt out on center stage. I blogged earlier this month about "The death of ...

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...