D vs. C#

David Brown dlang at davidb.org
Sun Oct 21 22:28:14 PDT 2007


On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:21:37PM -0500, Dave wrote:

> Runtime reflection aside, I can't think of anything a VM can do that a 
> static compiler couldn't with the possible (but largely unproven) exception 
> of sometimes generating better code because of access to runtime info.

I believe most already do this kind of analysis.  I'm not sure it helps,
since there is plenty of other overhead to using a VM, so it probably just
makes the VM use less costly.

David



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