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by davvid 2230 days ago
Google threw money at the problem and that didn't help. Lookup the history behind the "Unladen Swallow" project.
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pansa2 2230 days ago
> Google threw money at the problem

Not really, especially compared to the amount of money they threw at JavaScript. IIRC Unladen Swallow was just a couple of interns.

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jashmatthews 2230 days ago
Unladen Swallow wasn’t actually a serious attempt like V8 or anything and a large part of why it failed was that LLVM wasn’t ready and even when it was, it was ill suited to compiling a highly dynamic language like Python.
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