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This is the topic of the post if you keep reading :)

What would be nice is an official '@compile' decorator, but there already are a couple of attempts and none of them are (AFAIK) compelling enough to declare them the default.

I think the most compelling effort right now is Mojo [0]. Chris Lattner usually delivers, so I'm pretty bullish on Mojo.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809658

Unfortunately subclassing int is actually used https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum and worse Python's int is arbitrary precision so you couldn't compile it to a fixed size.

Well, there is always the option of C/C++...