Java > Scala

[Walter Bright]

On 12/2/2011 11:56 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> To think, LLVM devs complain about LLVM IR being so low-level, and it would
> so nice to have something as high-level as Java bytecode, which is so sweet
> for optimizers and jit.

The people I know who have written professional Jits for the Java bytecode don't 
think it is very amenable to it.

The Java bytecode is designed to be amenable for writing a simple interpreter 
for it. Not a Jit.