Why I'm Excited about D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/2015 5:59 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Not really when you think about it. CPU instruction is a bytecode like another,
> with provided hardware interpreter for it.

Oh, I have thought about it. There's at least a couple orders of magnitude 
difference in complexity, even for the dumbest code generator.

> It is becoming common to have VM not going through the interpreter step (ie
> software interpreter) to go directly to low quality but fast codegen. V8 is
> doing this for instance.

When you've got unlimited resources, you can do that.