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Not to mention I don't think any pure approach will ever "win". To date, we've used a lot of different compilation techniques for wholly different use cases, a
by daeken 17y ago
Not to mention I don't think any pure approach will ever "win". To date, we've used a lot of different compilation techniques for wholly different use cases, as well as together for different parts of compilation where one makes more sense than another. I don't see any reason why that won't happen here. There's no reason this is an all-or-none proposition.
- stcredzero 17y agoSmalltalk images are a clear demonstration that it doesn't have to be "all or none." Given a clean runtime model, one should be able to switch the execution engine on the fly, just as Smalltalk lets a Smalltalk app (debugger) act as a bytecode interpreter for the process being debugged, then switches back to JIT machine code when you hit "run".