This surprises me because it's the second of its kind in the past couple months. (There was another patch that helped CPUs exercise their execution branch pred

This surprises me because it's the second of its kind in the past couple months. (There was another patch that helped CPUs exercise their execution branch prediction capabilities.) I would have guessed that this phase in a language's evolution would come much earlier in the adoption curve. ...like, five years ago for python. Interesting! Here's to further optimizations!