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> unless some big corporation is willing to spend big bucks It seems like the outcome of the Unladen Swallow project was that there was no point to JIT general
by marmaduke 7y ago
> unless some big corporation is willing to spend big bucks
It seems like the outcome of the Unladen Swallow project was that there was no point to JIT generally because the language semantics prevent the sort of accelerations possible in other languages. (I'm aware of how PyPy and Numba are successful exceptions.)
- jashmatthews 7y agoLLVM just isn't that good for a JIT compiler: http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospect... Azul made it work for Java with what they said was ~20 man years of work.