[dr_zoidberg]

No need to quote you, but GvR himself [0]. That's the Faster CPython initiative, which has been ongoing for about 2 or 3 years I think. 3.11 got some nice speedups from it, and 3.12 is on its way to get more. [1]

[0] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/FasterCPyt...

[1] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas