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So all those Java JITs are just a big waste of time? If the virtual machine imposes no overhead then I guess you'd be right but that seems rather unlikely.

HTML::Template is a VM is you squint and tilt your head but that doesn't make HTML::Template::JIT useless.

-sam

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Re^3: {Perl6} Macros and native compilation
by audreyt (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2005 at 04:44 UTC
    Err, actually, Parrot has this massively sane, cross platform, JIT system. It's just that we as compiler writers need not be aware of it.
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