Compiled binaries VS interpreted code in python <p>I'm planning to use python to build a couple of programs to be used as services, run from PHP code later on. In terms of performance, which is faster, to compile the python code into a binary file using cx_freeze or to run the python interpreter each time I run the program?</p> <p><b>Deployment environment:</b><br /> <b>OS:</b> Arch Linux ARM<br/> <b>Hardware:</b> Raspberry Pi [700MHz ARMv6 CPU, 256MB RAM, SD Card filesystem]<br/> <b>Python Interpreter:</b> Python2.7<br/> <b>App calls frequency:</b> High</p>