The new PyScript project lets you embed Python programs directly in HTML pages and execute them within the browser without any server-based requirements. The project was announced this weekend at ...

In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

If you can find a way to speed up the implementation of that loop — say, by using Python built-ins instead of handwritten code — you could get a measurable performance improvement.