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by jojohohanon 1191 days ago
Isn’t it “self”, really? [1]

Assume your python program is fully static and well behaved from a compiler perspective. JIT compile it, and observe what it does, so that you can invalidate the compiled code and re-JIT it if it does something overly dynamic.

Incidentally, what JVM did. (I’m sure now it’s been tweaked beyond recognition)

[1] https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/pics.html