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…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

…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?

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

…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

…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

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

…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

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

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

…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

…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

…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

…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

…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

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

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

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

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

…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?

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

There you go: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas

comment by ivoflipse · 2022-01-24 · in Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]

…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

…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)

…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

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

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