compilers

Python and Compilers: A Didactic Bridge to the CPython Pipeline

2026-05-07·2963 words·14 mins

Computer Architecture Python compilers bytecode AST

Python does not run your code line by line: first, CPython compiles it to bytecode. With the tokenize, ast, compile, and dis modules, we follow a simple expression from tokens to syntax tree to bytecode, right in the interpreter.

Program Execution: From Source Code to Machine Code

2026-05-05·3249 words·16 mins

Computer Architecture compilers Assembly Python Java

You write a line of code, and the processor only understands bits. We follow the translation: the two-pass assembler, the compiler phases, linking and loading. Along the way, GCC cuts twelve instructions down to two with -O2, and we see where Python and Java sit between compiling and interpreting.

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