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in thread Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long

I believe that a bytecode to native compiler has always been a part of the overall plan, albeit with a somewhat low priority.

It has to be easier to write a bytecode to C compiler once you have a working interpreter as a reference platform, than to do so from scratch?

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