I'm going to the summer batch from May 21st to August 8th, and hopefully by then I will have made more progress. Definitely let me know if you are around then!

I'm going to the summer batch from May 21st to August 8th, and hopefully by then I will have made more progress. Definitely let me know if you are around then! Yeah I agree that you want to remove dynamism. For something like BINARY_ADD, the operands will only be strings or numbers in a parser. You can cheat and just assume there is no operator overloading. Although I don't know how much that will actually speed things up! I should make a profile at the C level. I have profiled at the Python level and sped things up 6-7x already. The other thing I think will help is using something like spans/slices instead of strings. Parsing creates all these tiny string objects. And also as I mentioned changing the representations of the nodes, which is a fairly naive Python representation now. Python objects are huge! ----- I didn't know about raptorjit, but I had heard of Snabb Switch awhile ago on Hacker News. It looks interesting! It reminds me of the Dart language being inspired by v8. The problem with v8 is that you can change one line in JS and your performance will just fall off a cliff. It's hard to detect unless you write benchmarks, which most people don't. So Lars Bak started Dart to remedy that problem, designing the language around stable JIT performance!