Unladen Swallow was an optimization branch of CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language, which incorporated a just-in-time compiler built using LLVM into CPython's virtual machine. Like many things regarding Python (and the name "Python" itself), "Unladen Swallow" is a Monty Python reference, specifically to the joke about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Unladen Swallow was an optimization branch of CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language, which incorporated a just-in-time compiler built using LLVM into CPython's virtual machine. Like many things regarding Python (and the name "Python" itself), "Unladen Swallow" is a Monty Python reference, specifically to the joke about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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