It's because the extra slowness is supposed to be buying us software thats safer and easier to write. The argument has never been about how fast can we be, it'

It's because the extra slowness is supposed to be buying us software thats safer and easier to write. The argument has never been about how fast can we be, it's about being fast enough where the cost of talent completely annihilates the cost of compute. If I were writing some python, which means I've already made that trade off, you wouldn't much like my answer if you started asking me such questions. Which is a shame because I'd probably rather have quite a lot of respect for the same point if we were working lower down the stack.