[Tutor] Compiling Python to Native Machine Code

[Marc Barry]

All:

Is it possible to compile Python directly to native machine code? The reason 
I ask is because I am using Python to do some pretty intensive simulations 
that take anywhere between 10 minutes and a few hours to run. I assume that 
if I could compile it directly to machine code that this may speed up my 
simulation times.

Does anyone have any experience with doing this? Would there be any 
significant gains?

Regards,

Marc

P.S. I am doing all this under Windows 2000.

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