Re: Re: Slashdot

On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 7:55 AM, Eric Merritt wrote:
>>> I'd like a language that could run in three different modes:
>>> interactive interpreted form, highly portable runtime form,
>>> and full natvie speed optimized form.

The problem I see with "running at full native speed" is that there is 
no way around doing dynamic lookups in a dynamic language, and doing 
them for everything in a fully dynamic language. And if everything is a 
dynamic message send, what is there to compile? Your assembly would 
just be a list of calls to your dynamic message send function.

AFAICS, native compilation is only particularly helpful is if you drop 
some dynamic features - and that's an important choice for a language 
as it trades performance for flexibility. How flexible do you want your 
language to be?

Cheers,
Steve
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