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How to make CPython faster.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-10-20 · latest 2025-07-31

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  1. …50% faster in less than four years", but the original goal was a 5x speedup in the same timeframe [ https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... ].
    comment by pansa2 · 2025-07-31 · in Following Up on the Python JIT
  2. Original details here: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... About the author: https://us.pycon.org/2023/speaker/profile/81/index.html > His academic and commercial work is focused on compilers, virtual machines…
  3. …result, or are there additional developments awaiting merger? Initially, the "Shannon Plan" ( https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... ) aimed for a 50% improvement with each release. Has this goal been deemed…
    comment by bratao · 2023-05-12 · in Faster CPython at PyCon, part two
  4. …3.11 was released 10/2022, CPython devs may already be hard at work on their own JIT impl. [^1]: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
    comment by willseth · 2023-02-28 · in Proposal to Merge Pyston with Cpython
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    Faster-Cpython Plan.md
    story by kristianp · 2022-10-28 · 2 comments
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    Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
    story by tosh · 2022-10-25 · 1 comment
  7. …small regions. Compile small regions of specialized code, using a relatively simple, fast compiler. https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
    comment by nigma1337 · 2022-10-25 · in Python 3.11.0 final
  8. …that's not really the plan - they're talking about just basic template compilation, nothing like V8 https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... .
    comment by chrisseaton · 2022-09-27 · in Making Python fast – Adventures with mypyc
  9. …with each point release[0]. So in the end it should be much more than a tiny improvement. [0] https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
    comment by cglace · 2022-07-06 · in Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
  10. …future release it’s just there’s a ton of other improvements they can do to speed it up first. See: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... where the plan is detailed. This is by a core python dev who is currently…
    comment by edgyquant · 2022-01-23 · in Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
  11. …Eric Snow and Guido van Rossum: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/faster_python_mark_sh... https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... - indicates that this is step 2 of 4, where the forthcoming steps actually plan…
    comment by btown · 2021-10-04 · in Python 3.11
  12. …[1] proposal). [0] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-2021-python-languag... [1] https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython
  13. …speed improvements [1]. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/raymondh/status/13574784866470051... [1] https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
    comment by pansa2 · 2021-02-08 · in Inline Caching: Quickening
  14. https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... And some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318
    comment by orf · 2020-10-28 · in Pyston v2: Faster Python
  15. Yeah the initial page looked very thin, but this linked one has a tiny bit more info: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/ti... Still I'm a bit skeptical ... his reasons for why others failed and he will succeed is…
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    Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
    story by coldtea · 2020-10-20 · 137 comments
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    A Faster CPython
    story by kragniz · 2020-10-20 · 0 comments