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by williamstein 1703 days ago
Python does, via pypy [1], which has very impressive performance and Python3 support. However, there are some subtle drawbacks, e.g., building from source takes hours instead of seconds (like CPython), and C extensions are slower. Still, the performance of pypy on a wide range of pure Python microbenchmarks is extremely impressive, and comparable to V8 (I've been collecting such benchmarks at [2] lately).

[1] https://www.pypy.org/

[2] https://github.com/sagemathinc/JSage/tree/main/packages/jpyt...