No, the pony model isn't better for compute tasks…

Think for instance about how you'd do efficient matrix multiplication of two matrices with a million row and column, in Pony, versus how it works in languages with shared memory. You'd spend a gigantic amount of time copying data for no good reason…

Of course pony can do shared memory. How about clevering up?

Ditching the pony model to defend it is a very strange version of the mote and bailey fallacy.