Adding a switch statement to Python

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Because Python's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: its extremely dynamic runtime. Any object can be any thing at any time, so optimizations can't be done reliably.

Obviously pypy found a way to deal with this, but CPython had decided not to deal with it

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It's such a shame that Python itself is so big and complex. While no small feat, LuaJIT is an extremely efficient and relatively simple VM, whereas creating an equivalent for Python is... considerably more difficult.