https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f2ae79d29e5e0bd24ad1300cb44e3a99104755c7 commit: f2ae79d29e5e0bd24ad1300cb44e3a99104755c7 branch: main author: Ned Batchelder <[email protected]> committer: Fidget-Spinner <[email protected]> date: 2025-02-08T19:28:35Z summary:
Docs: more explanation of the implications of new tail-call interpreter (GH-129863) Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <[email protected]> files: M Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst index 9c4922308b7f2d..ba7e8b42ef1f24 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst @@ -235,9 +235,13 @@ For further information on how to build Python, see This is not to be confused with `tail call optimization`__ of Python functions, which is currently not implemented in CPython. + This new interpreter type is an internal implementation detail of the CPython + interpreter. It doesn't change the visible behavior of Python programs at + all. It can improve their performance, but doesn't change anything else. + __ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call -(Contributed by Ken Jin in :gh:`128718`, with ideas on how to implement this +(Contributed by Ken Jin in :gh:`128563`, with ideas on how to implement this in CPython by Mark Shannon, Garrett Gu, Haoran Xu, and Josh Haberman.) _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
