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Not having to spin up and down whole interpreter/VM is, apparently, such a performance boost that some companies used to make whole business out of it

• rightbyte 3y ago
  You don't have to restart the VM after each request?
  • friendzis 3y ago
    > interpreter/VM IOW, runtime. It is rather typical to refer to runtimes of languages not compiling to native code as VMs. Runtime for Facebook's fork of PHP is literally called "HipHop Virtual Machine"