The most important change for this post was the reduction of overhead for processing each message off the wire, through improved thread scheduling/communication. The changes do not affect CQL, so much as the 'native' protocol - CQL over thrift is no faster/slower.
Ok, thank you: saying it affects the native protocol networking layer (and would not affect CQL over Thrift) totally makes it click for me; the post made it sound like CQL itself was affected. Again, thanks!
