> Between this link and the OP, we're seeing the first improvements to drop from Mark Shannon's Microsoft-funded full-time work on CPython optimization, alongsi

> Between this link and the OP, we're seeing the first improvements to drop from Mark Shannon's Microsoft-funded full-time work on CPython optimization, alongside Eric Snow and Guido van Rossum Oh good, after the proposals to speed up Python I didn't hear of any organisation stepping up to sponsor them. It's great to find that Microsoft did.