You&#x27;re probably joking, but the &quot;we need CPUs that are optimized for our high-level languages&quot;-argument has been raised again and again in all seriousness in the past, without anyone ever showing a convincing way to speed up Javascript, Python, etc. in hardware. Fact is, chasing pointers through small objects or looking up methods in hash tables is very cache-unfriendly, and memory latency is the bottleneck for many computational tasks today.<p>Instead, we should work on improved languages that provide better compromises between performance and convenience. Rust, for example, is a good step in this direction.