what's the point of rpython?

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    Rhodri> Just do the locking properly and worry about optimisations
    Rhodri> later.

The locking is already done properly (assuming we are discussing CPython's
reference counting).  Now is later.  People are thinking about lots of
optimizations, this is just one of them.

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