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  1. …mark every function as forceinline in CPython as it might negatively affect other compilers. [1]: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/183 [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121263
    comment by kenjin4096 · 2025-12-25 · in Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
  2. …Developers have significantly walked back those expectations since then. [0] Github slide deck https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt...
    comment by 3eb7988a1663 · 2025-10-09 · in Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
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    Faster-CPython ideas: Plan for 3.14
    story by Qem · 2025-04-14 · 1 comment
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    Faster CPython Plan for 3.14
    story by bratao · 2025-01-26 · 0 comments
  5. The Faster CPython team at least is aware of the paper and probably will look into it https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/707
    comment by ivoflipse · 2024-11-24 · in Deegen: A JIT-Capable VM Generator for Dynamic Languages
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    Faster CPython Plan for 3.14
    story by bratao · 2024-10-26 · 0 comments
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    Faster CPython Plan for 3.14
    story by ivoflipse · 2024-10-24 · 2 comments
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    Faster CPython 3.14 high level plan
    story by bratao · 2024-10-12 · 0 comments
  9. …useful, thank you for your work! Is the following GitHub issue the right place to monitor progress? https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/546 I'm open to doing some benchmarking. Several of my libraries have pure CPython bindings…
    comment by ashvardanian · 2024-01-14 · in Type information for faster Python C extensions
  10. …initiative. You might just get your JIT[1]. At the same time, I also agree with your sentiment. [1] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/wiki/Workflow-for-3....
    comment by heavyset_go · 2023-12-11 · in How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python
  11. The faster-cpython folks seem to be working towards a JIT ( https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/tree/main/3.13 ) and both pyston and cinder have JITs. So I don't think anyone has ruled one out.
    comment by uluyol · 2023-08-18 · in GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
  12. …years, such that Python could dynamically choose to either run the interpreter or a c&p option. 0: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/588
    comment by turndown · 2023-08-18 · in GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
  13. faster-cpython team has done a lot of work to experiment on it: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485#issuecomm... I wonder if the plan written there is current.
    comment by kzrdude · 2023-06-15 · in Our Plan for Python 3.13
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    Our Plan for Python 3.13
    story by bratao · 2023-06-15 · 399 comments
  15. lots of big ideas are still remaining to be done. One example is the register based interpreter, see https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485 A previous plan called for the beginning of a JIT in 3.12, seen as "Trace optimized…
    comment by kzrdude · 2023-05-12 · in Faster CPython at PyCon, part two
  16. …tps://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.11.html#whatsnew311-fas... Improved parallelism in 3.12 and 3.13 - https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/wiki/Python-3.12-Goa... Improved memory efficiency in 3.12 -…
    comment by brylie · 2023-05-04 · in EdgeDB – A graph-relational database built on top of Postgres
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    Python 3.12 Nogil Benchmark
    story by bratao · 2023-04-20 · 1 comment
  18. …3 years I think. 3.11 got some nice speedups from it, and 3.12 is on its way to get more. [1] [0] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt... [1] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
    comment by dr_zoidberg · 2023-03-07 · in RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust
  19. …in the faster-cpython project though (which is responsible for these performance improvements). https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
    comment by foolswisdom · 2022-12-15 · in Python 3.11 Delivers
  20. …on their end. But work is being done, and the results are there if you benchmark things. [0] See https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt... however that's over a year old already and I'm sure I've read/heard more…
    comment by dr_zoidberg · 2022-12-08 · in Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM
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    Python 3.12 Goals
    story by mmq · 2022-11-08 · 1 comment
  22. …the CPython core/Faster CPython developers are actively investigating implementations of this idea: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485 .
    comment by singhrac · 2022-11-05 · in A Register-Based Python Interpreter for Beter Performance
  23. https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/wiki/Python-3.12-Goa... is interesting too. > Python currently has a single global interpreter lock per process, which prevents multi-threaded parallelism. This work, described in PEP 684, is to make…
    comment by simonw · 2022-09-20 · in Faster CPython 3.12 Plan
  24. Some background on the project: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt...
    comment by LVB · 2022-09-20 · in Faster CPython 3.12 Plan
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    Faster CPython 3.12 Plan
    story by bratao · 2022-09-20 · 139 comments
  26. That might be a worthwhile addition to the suggestion at https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/453
    comment by eru · 2022-09-10 · in Python type hints are Turing complete
  27. It is happening: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
    comment by anewhnaccount2 · 2022-08-10 · in JNumPy: Writing high-performance C extensions for Python in minutes
  28. …I believe it's still complicated by C API compatibility. The most recent discussion I see is here: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/discussions/138 Victor Stinner's experiment showed some performance regressions, too:…
    comment by acdha · 2022-08-02 · in Does my data fit in RAM?
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    Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
    story by hyperbovine · 2022-07-06 · 444 comments
  30. The majority of the improvements come from the Faster-CPython ( https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas ) project, sponsored by Microsoft (Thanks!!)
    comment by bratao · 2022-06-06 · in Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic
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    Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark
    story by wanderingmind · 2022-05-18 · 136 comments
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    Add latest benchmark numbers vs. 3.10
    story by Ralfp · 2022-03-12 · 0 comments
  33. There you go: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
    comment by ivoflipse · 2022-01-24 · in Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
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    Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
    story by Radim · 2022-01-23 · 228 comments
  35. …faster either, but recently changed his mind. You can find a presentation on his motivations here: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt... Sam Gross comes out of that community so he’s familiar with the motivations…
    comment by SoylentOrange · 2021-10-16 · in A viable solution for Python concurrency
  36. …including the loading of the modules necessary to start python and the standard library. Check out https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues?q=is%3Aissue+... for some ideas regarding improvement there.
    comment by O5vYtytb · 2021-10-10 · in Python and Lua (2019)
  37. …E.g. the faster-cpython project is focusing on improving general Python interpreter performance: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas
    comment by syastrov · 2021-10-06 · in Show HN: Work for Performance – Open performance issues on open-source
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    Faster CPython [pdf]
    story by MikusR · 2021-05-17 · 0 comments
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    Faster Cpython [pdf]
    story by Tomte · 2021-05-16 · 0 comments
  40. TFA references a pitch on GitHub => https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt... It sounds as though Microsoft has some strategic goals centered around Python, if I'm not over-reading Guido.
    comment by smitty1e · 2021-05-15 · in Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator
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    Faster CPython [pdf]
    story by doener · 2021-05-14 · 0 comments
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    How to make Python faster [pdf]
    story by claudiug · 2021-05-14 · 0 comments
  43. Presentation from Guido van Rossum at the Python Language Summit: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt...
    comment by patrick91 · 2021-05-13 · in Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
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    Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
    story by patrick91 · 2021-05-13 · 90 comments