I remember a former colleague, (may he RIP) ported a similar optimization to our fork of Python 2.5, circa 2007. We were running Linux on PPC and it gave us th

I remember a former colleague, (may he RIP) ported a similar optimization to our fork of Python 2.5, circa 2007. We were running Linux on PPC and it gave us that similar 10-15% boost at the time.