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by tredre3 1129 days ago
> If you’ve ever analyzed the machine code a simple python script spits out you’ll see how helplessly bloated it is.

How would one do that? I thought python generated bytecode and interpreted that code? Where's the machine code? Do you mean dissembling the python interpreter itself? In which case it would be gcc/llvm spitting out machine code, no?