by haberman on 2/10/2025, 6:35:30 PM
by madspindel on 2/10/2025, 4:27:29 PM
> Preliminary numbers on our machines suggest anywhere from -3% to 30% faster Python code, and a geometric mean of 9-15% faster on pyperformance depending on platform and architecture.
Nice!
by codr7 on 2/10/2025, 1:27:48 PM
I get the feeling that Python is finally reaching the critical mass needed to significantly improve performance, good times.
by ninetyninenine on 2/12/2025, 11:58:58 AM
They didn’t add tail calls for the longest time because it blows the stack and makes it harder to debug when stepping through code. Maybe they should make a keyword in Python to explicitly enable tail call recursion when it’s needed.
by theandrewbailey on 2/10/2025, 1:18:32 PM
Pi-thon.
I blogged about this: https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/10/tail-call-updates.ht...
It uses a technique I published several years ago for writing fast interpreters with tail calls: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
There is also this tweet from the author: https://x.com/kenjin4096/status/1887935698906529903