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People usually use "compiled" to refer to languages that lower programs into machine code. Lowering the program into a bytecode isn't sufficient. Bytecode inte
by Scaevolus 15y ago
People usually use "compiled" to refer to languages that lower programs into machine code. Lowering the program into a bytecode isn't sufficient.
Bytecode interpreters must be carefully optimized, and still usually have an unavoidable performance hit from their cache usage patterns (e.g. from bytecode being in d-cache).
- marijn 15y agoWhich is why dynamic languages are compiled to machine code nowadays. I'm not sure about ActionScript, but both JavaScript and Lua are compiled to machine code when speed matters.