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[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/17/17 10:37 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 21:01:33 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>
>> This is a common misconception. LLVM as AoT optimizing compiler is
>> great, but for the JIT compiler it's actually far too slow at codegen
>> to be a sensible choice.
>
> I don't know how big of a misconception it is. The Dropbox effort on
> Pyston (LLVM JIT for Python) just recently shut down and nobody
> expressed a lot of surprise in the HN comments.

It might be that HN just in general are pessimistic ;)
w.r.t Pyston I've seen it coming since the very first blog post that 
described their approach to the problem. However I've seen lots of folks 
being quite enthusiastic about that effort.

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Dmitry Olshansky