Poll: Primary D version
bearophile
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Sun May 23 01:14:30 PDT 2010
Walter Bright:
> Doing it in an automated way
> requires whole program analysis, something not entirely practical in a language
> designed to support separate compilation.
Compiling programs of a dynamic language like Lua was seen as hopelessly inefficient. But today programs running on the the Lua JIT are often faster than equivalent FP-heavy D programs compiled with DMD.
So it's all in having a positive attitude toward technological problems: if the need to do something grows strong enough, people usually find a way to do it :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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