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  • The last point cannot be overstated. All of these libraries take code that's almost at the level of machine code, and turn it into actual machine code. The tricky part in compiling most languages that are called "scripting languages" is getting from the dynamically typed, late-bound, huge, complicated source language to something that is even remotely efficient. Commented Jul 25, 2015 at 13:38