On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 17:30:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > If I was doing it, and speed was paramount, I'd probably fix it > to generate native code instead of bytecode and so execute code > directly. Even simple JITs dramatically speeded up the early > Java VMs. Could you re-use the compiler recursively to first compile and run CTFE, followed by the rest? --rt