translating Python to Assembler

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> No, it doesn't output corresponding machine code (that's what
> some Java JIT implementations do, but I'm not aware of any
> Python implementations that do that).  The virtual machine
> interpreter just does the action specified by the bytecode.

By "outputs corresponding machine code" I meant "feeds corresponding
machine code to the CPU" to make the analogy clearer. Which can
mean a function call.

Regards,


Björn

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