In contrast to early systems which more or less translated Python operations to unoptimised calls at the virtual machine level (such as the currently-unavailable P2C: http://sourceforge.net/projects/p2c/), more recent works such as Starkiller (unreleased: http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/1/) and ShedSkin (experimental but available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/shedskin/) have attempted to offer better translations of Python programs to lower-level languages in order to improve the performance of the resulting programs, typically sacrificing certain dynamic features of Python in order to be able to do so.

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