The latest update to PyPy (5.6), the just-in-time compiling runtime for Python, supplies the usual roster of bug fixes and incremental improvements. Its biggest changes, though, involve a ...

PyPy is a drop-in replacement for the stock Python interpreter, and it runs many times faster on some Python programs. Python has earned a reputation for being powerful, flexible, and easy to work ...

While one might ordinarily think of the PyPy project as an experiment in implementing the Python runtime in Python itself, there is really more to it than that. PyPy is, in a sense, a toolbox for the ...

Software transactional memory (STM) is an ambitious feature that is being worked on for the PyPy interpreter. STM is an alternative to locking that is meant to eventually replace the (in)famous global ...