Yes - I wish I could compile my applications. Certain ones could benefit from being sped up a lot.
I have used Cython before, on a pure Python program and using the --embed command, but it was a LOT of work to get that working (ended up having to take my Python program and merge everything into one monolithic Python file and feed that to Cython. And that meant taking the output from pyside-uic and bunging that in, as well as merging in the Resource file generated from pyside-rcc.
I did that as an exercise. It worked, but was an awful lot of hard work and it was a horrifically hacky way to do it ;)
At the same time I did also obfuscate things like the Licensing code that was in that file, in Python, beforehand.
So yeah, it's not like I'm new to that sort of thing :)
I just wish there was a more effortless way to do that - Nuitka has that promise but last time I checked it's just not there yet, despite the awesome work being done by Kay.