Makes ya miss having a BDFL. Dang I didn't realize he's 70 now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum

Yeah it seems like a miss. I guess the thinking was that it wasn't developer-facing and just an internal optimization. But of course any change to garbage collection will change the memory and cpu dynamics of the process in a material way.

It's not a change to the language, it's a change to the cpython runtime

Exactly! Would like to understand more how that came about. PEP exists for a reason.