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Except it's nothing like that, it's like an interpreter framework written in Python with a reference implementation that happens to be a Python interpreter. Wri
by orf 10y ago
Except it's nothing like that, it's like an interpreter framework written in Python with a reference implementation that happens to be a Python interpreter. Write your interpreter in RPython, use the right decorators and boom you have a compiled interpreter with a free JIT (with speeds that beat C in some workloads, apparently).
Pretty cool. Pretty unlike Java I think.
- pjmlp 10y ago> Pretty unlike Java I think. Time to learn about Graal, which will be partially integrated into Java 9. https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and+Presentations https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and... Or JikesRVM for that matter, http://www.jikesrvm.org/ http://www.jikesrvm.org/
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