Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/15 6:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

That's about the case for hhvm. -- Andrei