{"id":170823,"date":"2023-08-29T03:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/computer-scientists-develop-open-source-tool-for-dramatically-speeding-up-the-programming-language-python"},"modified":"2023-08-29T03:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:23:15","slug":"computer-scientists-develop-open-source-tool-for-dramatically-speeding-up-the-programming-language-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/computer-scientists-develop-open-source-tool-for-dramatically-speeding-up-the-programming-language-python","title":{"rendered":"Computer scientists develop open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-scientists-develop-open-source-tool-for-dramatically-speeding-up-the-programming-language-python2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow\u2014up to 60,000 times slower than code written in other programming languages\u2014and Scalene works to efficiently identify exactly where Python is lagging, allowing programmers to troubleshoot and streamline their code for higher performance.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/programming+languages\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">programming languages <\/a>\u2014C++, Fortran and Java are some of the more well-known ones\u2014but, in recent years, one language has become nearly ubiquitous: Python.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPython is a \u2018batteries-included\u2019 language,\u201d says Berger, who is a professor of computer science in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst, \u201cand it has become very popular in the age of data science and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/machine+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning<\/a> because it is so user-friendly.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/language\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">language<\/a> comes with libraries of easy-to-use tools and has an intuitive and readable syntax, allowing users to quickly begin writing Python code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow\u2014up to 60,000 times slower than code written in other programming languages\u2014and Scalene works to efficiently identify exactly where Python is lagging, allowing programmers to troubleshoot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}