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Tue Nov 29 23:43:45 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-November/058408.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>To me, that's an argument in favour of always generating
>>a .pyc, even for scripts.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow the connection.

You were saying that if the parser and compiler were
slow, it would slow down single-file scripts that
didn't have a .pyc (or at least that's what I thought
you were saying). If a .pyc were always generated,
this problem would not arise.

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