EPISODE 08
The Lock Comes Off
AI Coronation & the Speed Reckoning · 2015–now
November 2020.
Guido van Rossum, retired for a year, tweets that retirement was boring — he's joined Microsoft, and he has a plan about performance.
The World
The Pressure
The Response
May 2025 Microsoft layoffs — who/how many of the Faster CPython team[VERIFY]
The Fight
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Why Your Code Looks Like This
current pyperformance geomean numbers, 3.10 → 3.14[VERIFY]
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- Sam Gross’s original nogil announcement — SOURCE-NEEDED
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