Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled "Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python", but noted that the title really should be: "Measuring the performance of compilers ...

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Performance of Python programs has been a major focus of development for the language over the last five years or so; the Faster CPython project has been a big part of that effort. One of its ...

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