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Julia is another dynamically typed language using LLVM. On the other hand, Julia was designed to use LLVM. I think this may be the first to succeed in dynamical

by sanxiyn 13y ago

Julia is another dynamically typed language using LLVM. On the other hand, Julia was designed to use LLVM. I think this may be the first to succeed in dynamically typed language not designed to use LLVM.

ihnorton 13y ago
What about Rubinius? (don't know much about it; does it not qualify as successful?)
- erichocean 13y ago
  There's also Python's "Unladen Swallow" attempt.[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow
  - bobbyi_settv 13y ago
    Unladen Swallow is a dead project at this point (although many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston https://github.com/dropbox/pyston https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/ https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...