Is the RISC design philosophy not useful when applied to a JITted virtual machine?
Skipping all the rest...
No. It isn't, and JITting doesn't have anything to do with this. The issue is expressable semantics, and in languages with active data (which encompasses a number of the languages we're interested in, icluding perl, python, and ruby) not allowing direct access to members of an aggregate makes doing things with that aggregate both slower and far more convoluted in a number of ways.
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