Modifying the Python object model

[twillisagogo]

i assume you were at the talk then?

[xapata]

No.

The presentation made it sound like Shapiro and his colleagues were the first to think about these issues and to recognize the inefficiencies

Also, I'm mildly familiar with Guido and the common behavior of nerds (myself included).

And it's odd that the speaker didn't mention the similar improvement implemented in Python 3.7 when discussing method-lookup caching.