[Python-ideas] Re: Automatic translation of Python to assembly language

Mark @pysoniq wrote:

Translating a single language directly to assembly gives the best optimizations because most of the commonly used compilers, like GCC, LLVM and Clang, use an intermediate language intended for many languages, and compiles to a number of target architectures.

To take advantage of that, you need to find some optimisations that are made possible by the fact that you're compiling Python in particular to x86 in particular. That's something else that would be interesting to hear about. -- Greg