No. Worse, this makes, exactly, the case for Julia[1]. Julia has llvm integrated within it for code gen. So, there's no actual need to start playing with low

No. Worse, this makes, exactly, the case for Julia[1]. Julia has llvm integrated within it for code gen. So, there's no actual need to start playing with lower level code, unless you really want to. From a programmer productivity scenario, I'd find it difficult to justify all the extra work and time spent on doing the Python + LLVM version, as compared to something that was far simpler to maintain, and performed almost as well. Now if he came out with some sort of 2 order of magnitude improvement, that would be a different story. But I don't see Python getting there. Without appealing to something external, which isn't, itself, Python. [1] https://julialang.org https://julialang.org