Revolutionize Your Python Code with Codon: The High-Performance Compiler That’s 10–100x Faster!

Say Goodbye to Slow Python and Hello to Lightning-Fast Performance with Codon’s Automatic Type Checking and Machine Code Conversion!

A new high-performance Python compiler called Codon compiles Python code to native machine code with no runtime overhead, resulting in Python performance typically 10–100 times faster than usual.

MIT researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab have developed Codon, which supports native multithreading and is on par with, or even faster than, C/C++ performance.

Unlike other domain-specific languages (DSLs) within Python, Codon allows users to write Python code without concern for data types or performance, which are automatically handled.

Already in commercial use in quantitative finance, bioinformatics, and deep learning, Codon can convert the code to native machine code, avoiding Python’s runtime overhead related to data types, and produce an executable file that runs at C or C++ speed, with additional domain-specific optimizations.

Codon offers an innovative way for developers to create new domain-specific languages within Python without sacrificing performance, making it an ideal solution for non-programming experts who may not want to learn a new language or tool. This user-friendly approach results in…