Comment by jsmeaton
What I was hoping to be able to do was run our existing cpython project on graal to try and benefit from whatever speedups the jvm (or, if possible, compiling to a native module) would provide, rather than build with the jvm specifically in mind from the get go.
That is a problem with Python as a language and a platform and has nothing to do with Graal. PyPy is in the same boat. If the alternative Python's banded together there would be 10.