[The Auditorium on 2022-07-14] The "Faster CPython" project aims to speed up Python, specifically CPython, by a large factor over the next few releases. The first release to see the benefits of this work is Python 3.11. Python 3.11 includes the following major changes: * Adaptive specializing interpreter (PEP 659) * Consecutively allocated execution frames * Zero cost try-except * More regular object layout * Lazily created object dictionaries. I will describe each of these, describing how each helps speed up Python, and how they interact with each other. I will end the talk with some possible directions for Python 3.12.