Not the most exciting news to land on the internet, but notable nonetheless.
The google play store has updated to version to 3.5.19
It’s unclear at this moment what exactly was updated, but the word around the XDA forums is the general speed appears to be a little faster than previous builds. I too experienced the same outcome, but we always have to take the placebo theory in to effect.
If your Google Play version hasn’t been bumped up yet and you feel the urge to always have the latest of everything, you can download and manually install it with the link found below.