That team was mostly hired away by NVIDIA.
replyWhat's the status of 'Faster CPython'?
replyI wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/
While JIT is being dropped, the original proposer and leader of the initiative was hired by ARM and continues work on speeding up Python.
replyHis current focus seems to be speeding up GC and free threading.
Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.
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