[bzbarsky]

When discussing timeframes, it's important to keep the moving goalposts in mind.

Back in 2009 it took order of 16 months to write a competitive JIT. But today's JITs are a good bit faster than they were in 2009, which means more special cases that need to be considered and made fast, from what I've seen of JIT development.

I should also note that I included QA resources of various sorts in my team size estimate....

[gsnedders]

Right: I think if Carakan were done now it would likely take two years to being competitive, given the same team size (and I included QA in team size — varying between 1.5 and 2).