Comment by IgorPartola

I think the question is more how to find/create more people who would spend a good chunk of their productivity on what sounds like a massively boring rewrite that has marginal returns on investment (Moore’s law says that 50-80% gains will be made up in less than a year by hardware getting faster, and even if it has slowed down it isn’t completely out of the picture). That does take a special kind of person to see this as an ambitious project and not a boring one.