python performance on OpenVMS I64

[arne_v]

The tiny speedup is only seen with my loader example since it is the "import" statement which invokes the JIT compile with file save.

Translating from Python source code (.py) to Python byte code (.pyc) at runtime match all criteria for being called JIT compilation.

But I believe that the common terminology choice in the Python world is to reserve the JIT compilation term for when it is translated to native instructions at runtime. The standard implementation CPython does not do that. But some implementations like PyPy does do that.