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The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May. March 10 update ...

On October 25, 2022, Python 3.11 stable was released. Python 3.11 is on average 1.25x faster than 3.10 due to the introduction of Faster CPython. Faster CPython is a Python acceleration project ...

To get an optimized build of Python, configure --enable-optimizations before you run make. This sets the default make targets up to enable Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) and may be used to ...