Seems like this article is inflammatory and totally unnecessary. It is written in a way to pin a blame on someone (Raymond H) and also looking at python-dev (a

Seems like this article is inflammatory and totally unnecessary. It is written in a way to pin a blame on someone (Raymond H) and also looking at python-dev (and even on the github issue) the decision was made month earlier (July) to go with the optimization[1], and Raymond complied[2]. [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/148606.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/14860... [2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/148611.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/14861...