>Byte code interpreters do that? That would be surprising. Programs are represented with 'lines' in byte code? kdb+/q has a bytecode compiler and each line is

>Byte code interpreters do that? That would be surprising. Programs are represented with 'lines' in byte code? kdb+/q has a bytecode compiler and each line is turned into bytecode and run, line by line. Also the performance is as good as C, most of the time.