Issues in compiling Python to machine code

[Johnathan Doe]

> we have talked about this here before, I think. Native compilation wont
> improve runtime speed of a dynamically typed language. Despite this, there
> are actually a few projects out there endevouring to do it anyway. If you
> want better speed from a python application, try a customized python
> runtime engine like Psyco.

That might be a good idea actually, to investigate Psyco and others. 
I'm not interested in speeding up Python as such, I'm just interested in 
being able to write system-level software in Python.  I would like to be 
able to write an OS in Python for instance.

Johnathan