It turns out that if you have language semantics that make optimizations hard, making a fast optimizing compiler is hard. Who woulda thunk?
To be clear, this seems like a cool project and I dont want to be too negative about it, but i just think this was an entirely foreseeable outcome, and the amount of people excited about this JIT project when it was announced shows how poorly a lot of people understand what goes into making a language fast.
To be clear, this seems like a cool project and I dont want to be too negative about it, but i just think this was an entirely foreseeable outcome, and the amount of people excited about this JIT project when it was announced shows how poorly a lot of people understand what goes into making a language fast.