PYTHON PARALLEL MAKES ‘CANDIDE’ FUN By Bob Heisler PUBLISHED: March 10, 2005 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 11:05 a.m.

Israeli researchers have developed a new software "platform" to turn easily readable Python instructions into low-level machine code and execute it in RAM without going through the CPU.

The Python script drives a pin on the parallel port high, triggering the Larson Scanner’s animation. Every minute, the script checks the status of FFMPEG and continues to hold the pin high until ...