On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 17:30:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
If I was doing it, and speed was paramount, I'd probably fix it to generate native code instead of bytecode and so execute code directly. Even simple JITs dramatically speeded up the early Java VMs.
Could you re-use the compiler recursively to first compile and run CTFE, followed by the rest?
--rt
