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gh-139922: Link to results in MSVC tail calling in What's New 3.15 (GH-143242)
Link to results in MSVC tail calling for whats new in 3.15
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* Builds using Visual Studio 2026 (MSVC 18) may now use the new
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:ref:`tail-calling interpreter <whatsnew314-tail-call-interpreter>`.
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Results on an early experimental MSVC compiler reported roughly 15% speedup
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on the geometric mean of pyperformance on Windows x86-64 over
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the switch-case interpreter. We have
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observed speedups ranging from 15% for large pure-Python libraries
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Results on Visual Studio 18.1.1 report between
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`15-20% <https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/results/5800X-msvc.pgo2-vs-msvc.pgo.tc.svg>`__
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speedup on the geometric mean of pyperformance on Windows x86-64 over
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the switch-case interpreter on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. We have
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observed speedups ranging from 14% for large pure-Python libraries
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to 40% for long-running small pure-Python scripts on Windows.
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This was made possible by a new feature introduced in MSVC 18.
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(Contributed by Chris Eibl, Ken Jin, and Brandt Bucher in :gh:`143068`.
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Special thanks to the MSVC team including Hulon Jenkins.)
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