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I don't disagree with you but, now you can retrofit a JIT into python. https://blog.pyston.org/2022/09/29/announcing-3-7-3-10-support-and-a-new-direction/ https

• acqq 3y ago
  "We think of the breakdown roughly as follows: of our roughly 30% original speedup, 10% is going into Pyston-lite, 10% was done independently by the CPython team between 3.8 and main, and the remaining 10% we are hoping to contribute back upstream." To compare with Javascript: if I remember, as it appeared, V8 JIT was orders of magnitude faster, compared to the interpreted code.
  • zitterbewegung 3y ago
    There was also a bunch of effort being put into efficiency of JavaScript. But now the tables have been changed and Microsoft is putting a large amount of effort into Python .