Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats

For 16 years, Rik Farrow has been an editor for the long-running nonprofit Usenix. He's also been a consultant for 43 years (according to his biography at Usenix.org) — and even wrote the 1988 book Unix System Security: How to Protect Your Data and Prevent Intruders.
Today Farrow stopped by Slashdot to share his thoughts on Codon. rikfarrow writes:
Researchers at MIT decided to build a compiler focused on speeding up genomics processing... Recently, they have posted their code on GitHub, a