[wlug] Re: Python Is Getting Faster: Major Performance Tweaks On Horizon

On Tue, 17 May 2022 12:39:24 +1200, I wrote:

This report <https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/python_is_getting_faster/> on what is coming in CPython 3.11 and subsequent versions talks a lot about speed improvements.

Another report <https://devclass.com/2022/05/31/how-python-3-11-is-gaining-performance-at-the-cost-of-a-bit-more-memory/> talks about the new “adaptive specializing interpreter” (which is not quite a JIT) which will speed up code execution, at the cost of a bit more memory. Choice quote: Responding to recent Python 3.11 speed tests, one developer said that “this may be the first Python 3 that will actually be faster (about 5 percent) than Python 2.7. We’ve waited 12 years for this.”