1024 Bytes of C Can Fake Python. Here's Exactly Where the Illusion Cracks.
Austin Henley squeezed a Python-like interpreter into 1,024 bytes of C. We verified the byte count, benchmarked it against CPython at scale,...
Sep 7, 2026
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