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by Cupprum 1575 days ago
>That statement is about as true as saying you can compile Python natively.

Python is actually compiled. When you run a file, it firstly compiles the cod into a bytecode, which is saved in ‘.pyc’ files. These are afterwards interpreted by the interpreter.

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So does TCL, and yet Go outperforms TCL/TK, even 8.6.