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The author of weval is the top comment. Reading the comments and understanding that transitively, weval turns interpreters into compilers, allowing interpreter
by genxy 6mo ago
The author of weval is the top comment.
Reading the comments and understanding that transitively, weval turns interpreters into compilers, allowing interpreters to generate machine code.
- direwolf20 6mo agoIf you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.
- genxy 6mo agoWe lost the plot here. What are your goals, to let everyone know that interpreters, definitionally don't generate code? This isn't debate club. I dropped a cool link that shows we have a machine that turns interpreters into compilers. I am talking about the machine. You are talking about the definition. We aren't talking about the same thing.
- ghusbands 6mo agoPartly, it's simply that words matter. An interpreter is not a compiler, even if partial evaluators and Futamura transforms are very cool. Posting about them in a context that isn't a confusion about what interpreters are may have been more fruitful.