I’ll repeat what I said at that time: one of the benefits of the new design is that it’s less vulnerable to the whims of the optimizer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322451

If getting the optimal code is relying on getting a pile of heuristics to go in your favor, you’re more vulnerable to the possibility that someday the heuristics will go the other way. Tail duplication is what we want in case, but it’s possible that a future version of the compiler could decide that it’s not desired because of the increased code size.

With the new design, the Python interpreter can express the desired shape of the machine code more directly, leaving it less vulnerable to the whims of the optimizer.

Yeah, I believe that statement and it seems to hold true for MSVC as well. Thanks for your work inspiring all of this btw!