One important caveat to remember is that this is before a lot of the work on free-threaded python started in full force. A lot of cutting edge work had to be done to support this in the GC but this came with performance penalties. As a result, the trajectory of the Faster CPython effort changed quite a bit.
Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too...
Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too...