That's not really accurate. The previous attempt proved that it worked, but we all know that getting something working and making something performant are two d

That's not really accurate. The previous attempt proved that it worked, but we all know that getting something working and making something performant are two different things. If there were some buy-in to this initiative, the performance issues of the "MVP" can be addressed. Guile also advanced its compiler during the same time, gaining more optimizations and a JIT compiler.