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Discussion on: The Peregrine programming language - A Python-like language that's as fast as C.

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jmarshall9120

How is trans compiling to see C, going to be different from what Python is doing? Unless I'm mistaken this is what CPython is doing, it's just doing it in real time, aka interpreting. And we can force Python, to compile instead of interpret already. Am I missing something here?

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Evan Oman

You're not missing anything, just a lot of hype over something new and shiny (with nice branding and graphics on the GitHub page)