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Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

Earlier this year, Google's Python engineers launched a new project called Unladen Swallow. They aimed to make Python execution performance five times faster by leveraging the Low Level Virtual ...