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While your work is very impressive, and I'm a big fan of Graal and systems like it, I think it's a mistake to say that something is solved when there's a single
by samth 10y ago
While your work is very impressive, and I'm a big fan of Graal and systems like it, I think it's a mistake to say that something is solved when there's a single research system that gets good performance. As another example, there have been systems with fast continuations for 40 years, but I still wouldn't call that solved. I've built a JIT that's very effective at optimizing contracts, but I don't think that's solved either.
- chrisseaton 10y agoWell the statement was that it was not possible to remove the overhead of method_missing (well they didn't actually say 'impossible' but that's how I read it, and I also took them to be referring to peak performance, because people usually are). I solved the problem of showing that it is possible to do that. Before people thought it was impossible, and now they know it isn't. I'm not claiming I solved other problems such as removing the overhead with low memory or removing it in corner cases.