Languages I want to understand better: Java and JavaScript. Apologies to the PLT community
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@bascule well, as far as VM design is concerned... honestly, CLR is far more interesting than JVM -
@whitequark uhh, strongly disagree. JVM has an all virtual mixed mode profiling JIT. CLR is mostly a stupid AOT compiler -
@bascule besides, with AOT you can afford much more interesting optimizations for rarely changing parts such as rt or other dynlang impls -
@whitequark with a profiling JIT you see optz an AOT compiler will never see (kettle, pot, black) -
@bascule startup time and predictability. -
@whitequark so "warm-up time" -
@bascule I think you may have a point w/indy (which should greatly benefit dynlang impls over JVM)... I need to investigate that -
@whitequark InDy helps any language with lambdas, multimethods, globals, or the need to cache anything at a call site (e.g. reflection)
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