[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, taking up ...

Google’s Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster ...

Google uses Python for many of its engineering projects, from internal server monitoring and reporting to outward-facing products like Google Groups, so it is no surprise that the company wants to ...

While the advertised singing and dancing never materialized, Larry Hastings's PyCon 2013 talk did look at a largely overlooked topic: Python bytecodes. The Python virtual machine (VM) operates on ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...