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Updated patch with suggested changes.
It also has a cleaned up fast_block_end section.
Concerning speed. What happens is (as Tim and Raymond have pointed out) that we can make some things a little faster, in exchange for other things being a little slower. You can play around with the order of the why cases in the fast_block_end section and see that effect.
By using a switch instead of if-else's, that should result in more consistent balance between the block exit cases. The order I currently have gives a little more priority for exceptions and that seems to help a tiny bit with the ccbench scores. I think that is a better bench mark than the small micro tests like pybench does. The problem with pybench is, it doesn't test deeper nesting where these particular changes will have a greater effect.