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petermikerson
14y ago
Unique technical skills. For example when Google decided that they wanted to built V8 (JS JIT) they couldn't just entire anyone who's read some JIT book one time, they need someone with genuine expertise, publication history and leadership
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petermikerson
14y ago
Ruby's internals are hilariously naive. 1.8 is an AST interpreter (!) and 1.9 and 2.0 are dumb bytecode interpreters, with no quickening or anything. Not to knock it too much - if it gets the job done it gets the job done - but it would be