That's a bullshit argument and I don't think it was raised. You can always run JIT on a subset of architectures (ARM, x86, x86_64, PPC and MIPS really cover a l

That's a bullshit argument and I don't think it was raised. You can always run JIT on a subset of architectures (ARM, x86, x86_64, PPC and MIPS really cover a lot) and run interpreter on others. The argument was always "easier to maintain", but that said, unladen swallow was agreed to be merged into cpython, had it met it's goals.