Re: Slashdot

> 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.

 That may very well be the case although even here there would be 
some performance improvement.

 I think many people like binaries for the distrobution and 
obfuscation features as well as the speed.  If your code is 
performant enough this itself would be a benefit.
 
> 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?

 Thats true and its something to take into consideration.

> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> OSX freeware and shareware: http://www.dekorte.com/downloads.html


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