You may want to read this Mike Pall post about the shortcomings of high level language compilers regarding interpreters: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lan

You may want to read this Mike Pall post about the shortcomings of high level language compilers regarding interpreters: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426