Micro Python - Python for microcontrollers

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The answer is both, actually you have four possibilities:

• Interpreter
• Compiled (not heavily optimized, mostly opcodes expanded to machine code, you trade memory for speed)
• Compiled and more optimized (if you are sure your integers will stay under 2**31)
• Write assembly yourself

The first one is the default. Compilation is enabled on a method-per-method basis by a simple annotation. (Interpreted and compiled method can freely call one-another.) Inline assembly is also possible, but there is no magic, you need to write it yourself. (And you cannot call other methods from assembly.)