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Re:Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python by mkesper on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:50AM (#8929376)
Saner handling of Unicode, for example.
Re:Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python by chc on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:32PM (#8930777)
This alone is pretty wonderful. I've only been working in Python a few months and the number of issues I've had to debug in 2.7 that came down to Unicode handling is kind of nuts.