[Python-Dev] native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Graham Guttocks]

Greetings,

I enjoy programming in Python and find it very productive. However,
one glaring weakness is the absence of a high-performance native code
compiler. Are there any plans to develop this?

Languages like OCaml have both a bytecode compiler and a native code
compiler, so you can do rapid development with the interactive
interpreter, and then compile down to native-code when you're finished
to get C-like speed out of your application.

So, it seems feasible that this could be done for Python as well, no?

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Regards,
Graham

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