Turns out other people don't care if you're tired of something, because they're not you. Plenty of folks do care about how much pure Python has improved. That's

Turns out other people don't care if you're tired of something, because they're not you. Plenty of folks do care about how much pure Python has improved. That's how it got to the front page. If you want to test baseline performance, you want a little program that's small enough to be easily understood, but just elaborate enough to hit enough of the standard programming patterns. So it's basically irrelevant what this code actually does, we're just looking at how much faster Python has gotten. Because that's something we care about. We don't care that "go is faster" or "C is faster", we use Python and we like to know that the newer versions actually are substantially better than the older versions we used to (or still have to) work with.