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Re:HLVM -- the High-Level Virtual Machine by nimrody on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @04:14PM (#1129908)
HLVM is targeted at high performance scientific applications. The current implementation already outperforms OCaml in several benchmarks (OCaml is more optimized for symbolic computations and sometimes 'boxes' floating point values).
Re:HLVM -- the High-Level Virtual Machine by oconnor0 on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @06:11PM (#1130235)
But "Closures for functional programming." is still on the TBD list.