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Yes. And the compiled form would be essentially the same as just embedding a lightweight interpreter because of all the dynamic shit that has to be done in the background. Psyco does JIT compilation of the bytecode in a much more reasonable manner and falls back to interpreter speed on edge cases,
without making the entire thing an unreasonable mess.
Why continue beating a dead horse? Python already has over 9000 backends: it doesn't need another one.