I think what's surprising is how small these optimizations are. A few proposal sped up Python a lot, but were partially incompatible. Meanwhile OCaml is removin

I think what's surprising is how small these optimizations are. A few proposal sped up Python a lot, but were partially incompatible. Meanwhile OCaml is removing the GIL from the language, adding multicore and added stuff like Flambda in the last decade, all of that while mostly keeping backwards compatibility and not sacrificing single-core performance. All of that while having way less people working on it than Python.