At a crossroad

[Rainer Deyke]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Here's the thing: tracing JITs can theoretically BEAT C.  Why?  Because
> a tracing JIT knows more about the system the program is running on than
> a compiler ever will.

Natively compiled C can use JIT techniques under the cover.  If a
JIT-compiled dynamic language beats C, it will be because the C compiler
sucks, not because JIT-compiled dynamic languages are generally fast.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com