[orf]

> javascript had the very same problems, but had good engineers to overcome the dynamic overhead

Sure, it also had Google to funnel an insane amount of money and engineering time/skill into it. If it's so simple to do then put all your ideas into a PEP and submit it.

[rurban]

A PEP? python needs to be rewritten completely. cython, pypy or mypy are good starts, but their op and data layout is still suboptimal and not best practice.

And I have no interest in python as language, only in fast dynamic VMs. e.g. potion could just add a python parser and get a 200x function call speedup, just as done for ruby or perl. The problem is the library.

[kbenson]

I think the last thing rurban needs is to jump into another VM. He's already got a few forks of Perl on GitHub[1].

1: https://github.com/rurban