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for more details. (Contributed by Victor Stinner and Pablo Galindo in
:issue:`38980`.)


* Function parameters and their annotations are no longer computed at runtime,
but rather at compilation time. They are stored as a tuple of strings at the
bytecode level. It is now around 2 times faster to create a function with
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algorithm to avoid quadratic behavior on long strings. (Contributed
by Dennis Sweeney in :issue:`41972`)

* Added micro-optimizations to ``_PyType_Lookup()`` to improve type attribute cache lookup
performance in the common case of cache hits. This makes the interpreter 1.04 times faster
in average (Contributed by Dino Viehland in :issue:`43452`)

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