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Re: comparison between native gcj and bytecode




The question remains whether virtually unlimited amounts of processing time,
ahead of time, can be beaten by having this additional information at run
time with actually few opportunities to draw conclusions from it?

But why should we choose? It seems obvious to me that future compiler technology will use *both* aggressive static analysis *and* dynamic compilation of specialisations (the latter presumably tightly guided by the former). All we're waiting for is for the mainstream of compiler writers to stop ignoring (or 'finessing') higher order types and functions, which, aside from being desirable language features in their own right, are extractable by static analysis from programmes written in common languages.

stephen p spackman <stephen@acm.org>, <stephen@cim.mcgill.ca>