Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/15 4:54 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> 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 ?

Nah. It's a fundamentally different approach to the same problem. -- Andrei