> 2) Python as a language is so dynamic/flexible/erfonomic that it has to do things that have overhead (necessary complexity unless you change the language) As

> 2) Python as a language is so dynamic/flexible/erfonomic that it has to do things that have overhead (necessary complexity unless you change the language) As PyPy demonstrates, much of this doesn't need to have anywhere near the overhead that it does in CPython. You can absolutely do better than CPython without changing the language, and you can do better than CPython without a JIT if you start specialising code.