Merge branch 'main' into gh-123923-defer-func #144

Job	Run time
Interpreter (Debug)	6m 42s
Free-Threaded (Debug)	10m 10s
i686-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Debug)	16m 51s
i686-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Release)	19m 10s
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Debug)	16m 40s
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Release)	21m 56s
aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Debug)	3m 49s
aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/msvc (Release)	6m 13s
x86_64-apple-darwin/clang (Debug)	11m 9s
x86_64-apple-darwin/clang (Release)	18m 54s
aarch64-apple-darwin/clang (Debug)	8m 56s
aarch64-apple-darwin/clang (Release)	12m 57s
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc (Debug)	7m 24s
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc (Release)	17m 27s
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/clang (Debug)	7m 38s
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/clang (Release)	13m 56s
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc (Debug)	1h 7m 17s
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc (Release)	22m 28s
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/clang (Debug)	1h 5m 34s
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/clang (Release)	36m 19s
	6h 31m 30s

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