[mlyle]

Of course, there's murky things like Python which make bytecode compiled forms behind the scene.

But there's a lot of magic involved in transforming Java to class files, and then there's a lot of further magic in resolving, loading, and eventually executing classes.

[colejohnson66]

PHP does the same. It’s compiled to a bytecode before execution. But I don’t think it’s cached anywhere like Python (but that may have changed in the decade since I’ve used it)

[meibo]

PHP has had an OPCache as an add-on since 5.1.0(around 2004), and by default since 5.5.0: https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.opcache.php

[cubano]

It better be cached or else that would be a total tradegy... why wouldn't you automatically want to cache the prerendered pages whenever possible?

It's not like writing a basic cache is very hard...or just "borrow" one from an OS implementation.