It's also nowhere near as fast as other language JITs. I'm talking orders of magnitude slower than JVM, .NET and LuaJIT. End result being a - relatively - dead

It's also nowhere near as fast as other language JITs. I'm talking orders of magnitude slower than JVM, .NET and LuaJIT. End result being a - relatively - dead project, since the incentives for people to use it over stock Python and pay extra compatibility costs are not there.