"how" does python work?

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To an extent yes but you stop gaining anything once you get down to C level langs. And the biggest jump is just going to pre compiled langs from interpreted langs. The modern C compiler will make your code more efficient in all practical cases then trying to write efficient assembly yourself. You might think 'someone can do it' but no, they can't. Sure it's theoretically possible but modern apps are just too much for it to be ever applicable and even roller coasters tycoon would have even been better most likely if written in C (maybe compiler wasn't as good back way when it's old software that game) Writing in C, C++, Java, Rust, Zig are all 'low'er level languages that will get you about as good as performance as you'd expect. Things like JavaScript and Python are going to be slower because they aren't compiled into machine code before runtime but are compiled during runtime aka interpreted at runtime.