From aee4c910388330e310ede60c1730e65350817863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Jin Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:09:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Link to results in MSVC tail calling 3.15 --- Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst index 0d35eed38f303d..11f08031ec54f2 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst @@ -854,11 +854,13 @@ Optimizations * Builds using Visual Studio 2026 (MSVC 18) may now use the new :ref:`tail-calling interpreter `. - Results on an early experimental MSVC compiler reported roughly 15% speedup - on the geometric mean of pyperformance on Windows x86-64 over - the switch-case interpreter. We have - observed speedups ranging from 15% for large pure-Python libraries + Results on Visual Studio 18.1.1 report between + `15-20% `__ + speedup on the geometric mean of pyperformance on Windows x86-64 over + the switch-case interpreter on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. We have + observed speedups ranging from 14% for large pure-Python libraries to 40% for long-running small pure-Python scripts on Windows. + This was made possible by a new feature introduced in MSVC 18. (Contributed by Chris Eibl, Ken Jin, and Brandt Bucher in :gh:`143068`. Special thanks to the MSVC team including Hulon Jenkins.)