I don't know if performance was ever much of a problem with AVIDA What if interesting things only start happening when you run billions of organisms for billio

I don't know if performance was ever much of a problem with AVIDA What if interesting things only start happening when you run billions of organisms for billions of generations? Kinda like what's been happening in neural networks field since GPUs enabled training of huge models on huge datasets. Even small scale experiments, if you can run them 100 times faster, you can explore 100 times more configurations. I also played with Avida a while back. It feels like the key people behind it just lost interest and moved on to other things, and there have been no others determined and talented enough to push it forward.