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@Fidget-Spinner Fidget-Spinner commented Apr 10, 2026

cc @kumaraditya303 @NekoAsakura @cocolato @Sacul0457

@NekoAsakura please let me know what name you would prefer. Thank you!


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--148359.org.readthedocs.build/

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Pending preferred name inclusion, of course! But this is awesome!

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It's Zhongtian Zheng. Cheers ❤️

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I left a couple of suggestions that make the docs more explicit and clear. They may not be needed, so I’ll leave this up to you whichever version you like better

experience lower memory usage for generated machine code and more efficient
machine code versus the old JIT.

machine code versus 3.14.
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machine code versus 3.14.
machine code versus the machine code generated by the 3.14 JIT compiler.

Same here

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I think this is already implied. It would also be dishonest of us to compare to something else, so I hope people think the same.

(Contributed by Ken Jin, Donghee Na, Zheao Li, Hai Zhu, Savannah Ostrowski,
Reiden Ong, Noam Cohen, Tomas Roun, PuQing, Cajetan Rodrigues, and Sacul in :gh:`134584`.)

The JIT optimizer now supports significantly more operations than in 3.14.
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The JIT optimizer now supports significantly more operations than in 3.14.
The JIT optimizer now supports significantly more operations than the JIT optimizer in 3.14

Small suggestion for clarity

(Contributed by Ken Jin and Savannah Ostrowski in :gh:`132732`.)

The JIT avoids :term:`reference count`\ s where possible. This generally
:term:`reference count`\ s are avoided where safe to do so. This generally
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:term:`reference count`\ s are avoided where safe to do so. This generally
:term:`reference count`\ s are avoided whenever it is safe to do so. This generally

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Thank you.

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Thanks for the review @StanFromIreland

@Fidget-Spinner Fidget-Spinner merged commit c4d9512 into python:main Apr 10, 2026
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JFYI: CPython web docs are rebuilt roughly every 5 mins now. So watch out for your names on https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.15.html#upgraded-jit-compiler !

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