The compilation process is roughly equivalent to what Python does when it makes a .pyc file from .py file, right? If that's so I'm kind of surprised they ever

The compilation process is roughly equivalent to what Python does when it makes a .pyc file from .py file, right? If that's so I'm kind of surprised they ever adopted the dumper approach (aeons ago) versus just compiling and saving the bytecode. I'm probably missing something fundamental here.