I didn't know what you meant...until I saw this The Python interpreter now uses a 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode which made a number of opcode optimizatio

I didn't know what you meant...until I saw this The Python interpreter now uses a 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode which made a number of opcode optimizations possible. (Contributed by Demur Rumed with input and reviews from Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner in issue 26647 and issue 28050.)