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Re:Rich Programmer Food (2007) by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:04PM (#11762677)
So by "interpreter" you mean "sandboxing interpreter" or something like it? OK, I can buy that doing that is harder than just emitting code...
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Re:Rich Programmer Food (2007) by sklogic on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:23PM (#11763497)
By interpreters here I mean this kind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11755303

I.e., an ad hoc AST-level interpretation, flat VM interpreters, tracing JITs, etc.

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