🐶 Python Weekly #376: Faster CPython at PyCon
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Faster CPython at PyCon
In part one of the tale, Brandt Bucher looked specifically at the CPython optimizations that went into Python 3.11 as part of the Faster CPython project. More of that work will be appearing in future Python versions, but on day two of PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mark Shannon provided an overall picture of CPython optimizations, including efforts made over the last decade or more, with an eye toward the other areas that have been optimized, such as the memory layout for the internal C data structures of the interpreter. He also described some additional optimization techniques that will be used in Python 3.12 and beyond.
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