Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/15 5:59 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 00:28:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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
>
> Not really when you think about it. CPU instruction is a bytecode like
> another, with provided hardware interpreter for it.

Classical interpretation via tree walking does not use a bytecode. -- Andrei