diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst index 3c7e28a00c9c1a..aa138c9cacb021 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst @@ -849,6 +849,16 @@ zlib 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 + to 40% for long-running small pure-Python scripts on Windows. + (Contributed by Chris Eibl, Ken Jin, and Brandt Bucher in :gh:`143068`. + Special thanks to the MSVC team including Hulon Jenkins.) + csv ---