Why I'm Excited about D

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 22:59:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/7/2015 3:30 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> A JIT would pay off where it matters - intensive use of CTFE 
>> leading to long
>> compilations. -- Andrei
>
> A decent interpreter would fix most of CTFE's performance 
> problems, no need to go as far as a JIT.

What is a JIT if not an interpreter with hardware support ?