and created codex_py2cpp as a way to play with the idea of automagically converting Python into C++. It’s not really intended to create robust code conversions, but as far as experiments go ...

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required ... require a specific compilation flag for the CPython build process (--with-tail ...

It also stands the best chance of becoming the default, as it’s highly compatible with existing Python code. PyPy uses just-in-time (JIT) compilation ... with C/C++ code. It’s one way to ...