Pypy is proof that you can speed up Python considerably. And it's written in Python. Imagine what could be achieve if one would write something like that in, sa

Pypy is proof that you can speed up Python considerably. And it's written in Python. Imagine what could be achieve if one would write something like that in, say, Rust ? My guess is that they didn't invest anywhere near the resources on unladden shallow (which was probably a side project) than they invested on chrome vm (which was a core project). Actually, I spend quite a lot of time on the Python mailling list, and here you can see they regularly find things to improve, perf wise. They just have terribly low resources. I've rarely seen a project as popular as Python, used by so many rich huge corporation, which such little resources actually. It's heart breaking.