alt Hacker NewsImportant enough, or benefits them directly? I have no good guesses how improving Python's performance would benefit them, but I would guess that's the real reason.
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I guess there are some Python workloads on Azure, Microsoft provides a lot of data analysis and LLM tools as a service (not paid by CPU minutes). Saving CPU cycles there directly translates to financial savings.
Think about how much effort they have put into things like Pylance and general python support in VAC. Clearly they think they have enough users that this matters to that a first class experience is worth having.
I wonder if this is related to Python in Excel. You'll have lots of people running numerical stuff written in Python, running on Microsoft servers.
A lot of commercial engineering and scientific software runs on windows.
Microsoft was the one hiring Guido out of retirement, and alongside Facebook finally kicking off the CPython JIT efforts.
Python is one of the Microsoft blessed languages on their devblogs.