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Re:Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster by eru on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:16PM (#46389181)
> [...] and I've just assumed the performance will still be as limited as it always has been...!)

Historically CPython performance has been so bad, that massive speedups were quite possible, once someone seriously got into it.

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Re:Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster by tom_ on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:48PM (#46415305)
And indeed that has proven the case. But my assumption was that Python had been so obviously designed with performance so very much not in mind, that it had ended up in some local minimum from which meaningful escape would be impossible. But I didn't overthink this opinion, and I've always liked Python well enough for small programs anyway, so I don't mind having it proven wrong.
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