Why is your Python ... your Python code Python may not be the fastest language around, but it is often fast enough. And Python is ideal when programmer time matters more than CPU time.

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.

A 24 MHz Telink CPU with ... that the object code is extremely similar to the ARM Thumb instruction set but with a few extra bits set and different mnemonics. But once you put Python on board ...