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Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.