Which is a pitty because it is very reasonable to give a second thought to
"compiled language"
also I think that it is completely clear what you mean Jason it is
completely clear to me what Andy means.
Compiled to what? Now I am pushing it, but parsing into an AST and than
interpreting it is not considered as compilation, *right now*. And if
tomorrow the AST interpreter includes JIT?
Cheers
Robert
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On 2/1/07, Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> wrote:
> Now that's just pushing it. Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, Squirrel, are all
> WRITTEN in C, but they don't run at C speeds. There's still the
> interpretation overhead...
>
> And Andy? you're also pushing it. Compiled into machine code vs
> compiled
> into an interpreted byte code. You know what is being talked about
> here.Wow, so angry.
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