Add 3.12-3.14 performance improvements

[JostMigenda]

Based on a Talk by Brandt Bucher (core developer and major contributor to the CPython JIT) at PyCon US 2025, because I’m not gonna run the pyperformance benchmark suite myself. 😅

Also includes some minor rewording.

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[Robadob]

Couple of comments, not strictly request changes moreso response to comments.

[JostMigenda]

Thanks, good catch!