Why I'm Excited about D

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 22:22:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/7/15 11:42 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> What's still missing is a faster AST interpreter for CTFE 
>> though.
>
> A JIT would be nice. -- Andrei

Maxine understood the point, see 
http://dconf.org/2013/talks/chevalier_boisvert.pdf p. 61 ff, an 
AST interpreter is something you can write over a long weekend, a 
JIT is rather unlikely to happen any time soon. Even a bytecode 
interpreter might hardly be worth the effort.