Episode 5 - Cinder with Carl Meyer

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This time we're hosting a special guest: Carl Meyer from Meta. What is Cinder, how does it work, and how does it intersect with the future of Python 3? Find out in today's episode. 100% serious stuff!

# Timestamps

(00:00:00) INTRO

(00:00:53) Carl Meyer's war story

(00:02:27) CINDER

(00:03:22) Static Python makes things significantly faster

(00:08:15) Cinder JIT and how it's tuned for Instagram

(00:11:57) Strict Python and the joy of import side effects

(00:16:35) The static typing controversy

(00:18:52) Upstreaming changes from Cinder?

(00:22:53) PEP 709: Comprehension inlining

(00:28:35) pip install CinderX

(00:31:19) Immortal instances

(00:35:15) asyncio.eager_task_factory()

(00:39:39) Carl's pet peeve with Python

(00:44:49) PR OF THE WEEK: PyPy's REPL in CPython

(00:52:07) WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON

(00:52:22) Python 3.12.1

(00:53:17) Python 3.11.7

(00:54:45) multiprocessing.SharedMemory track

(00:56:49) Fine-grained error locations for multi-line expressions

(01:00:03) libedit tab completion is fixed

(01:02:14) Colored exception tracebacks

(01:05:11) Removing testing modules from sys.modules, correctly

(01:06:47) SBOMs are a very serious matter

(01:09:08) Arrays by value on ARM

(01:12:24) Remove development environments and CAPS LOCK

(01:15:30) Interpreter cases generator refactored

(01:16:17) Free-threading news

(01:20:01) OUTRO

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