> I guess it's in the nature of Python to leverage internal/external modules written in a statically-typed compiled language to deliver high performance on core

> I guess it's in the nature of Python to leverage internal/external modules written in a statically-typed compiled language to deliver high performance on core functionalities. I'm aware of python leveraging compiled C or even FORTRAN to run certain functions, does it do message passing with a forked process or something else? I'm having a hard time googling for how it works since I don't know what it's called.