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Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)Posted Feb 11, 2008 19:31 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)In reply to: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) by ikm Parent article: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)
At the same time, other systems using portable bytecode (Java, .Net) throw a lot of efforts into JIT compilation and runtime optimization (like Hotspot JVM), as well as multithreading performance (have a look into JDK/JRE sources, you'll notice a lot of low-level tricks there). What make their developers do so ? In fact, reimplementing your dynamic language in Java instead of C often allows you to use these processor- and system-specific optimizations implemented by JDK/JRE developers itself.
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Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) Posted Feb 12, 2008 1:07 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] Start with JIT first, then do proper multithreading. Guido haven't done the first, neither he cared much about the second -- apparently, the speed didn't matter to him. For me, it's a sign of a sane person, a person who understands his objectives. After all, no one is writing JIT compilers for shell scripts. Actually, I think shell scripting is an outstanding example of what scripted languages are good for; not that I like shell syntax, implicit vars etc -- but the idea is just right.
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