Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

The Python workload includes an optional “Python X (64-bit)” component that invokes the official CPython Windows installer (an .exe that chains MSIs). If the CPython installer returns a non-zero exit ...

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

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