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You can sink 10 years into just about any software to make it run faster. I wouldn't think that reflects on the inherent difficulty of writing a compiler in the
by Retra 10y ago
You can sink 10 years into just about any software to make it run faster. I wouldn't think that reflects on the inherent difficulty of writing a compiler in the abstract.
- mafribe 10y agoSure, but a simplistic C++ compiler will still produce code of acceptable speed. The same is not true of simplistic compilers for languages like Javascript. Meta-tracing a la PyPy is such a revolution because it enables low-cost creation of reasonably performant tracing JIT compilers.