> They'll eventually need a JIT, once all the easy wins in runtime perf have been exhausted. How soon is "eventually"? :-) Python is 31 years old at this poin

> They'll eventually need a JIT, once all the easy wins in runtime perf have been exhausted. How soon is "eventually"? :-) Python is 31 years old at this point, and incredibly popular. If JIT hasn't happened yet, what eventuality will finally make it happen? For comparison, Javascript had incredibly mature JIT implementations by the time it reached its 15th year of existence.