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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by BuuQu9hu on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:23PM (#13346407)
For this reason alone, I have refused to use Truffle. Consider the RPython toolchain, from the makers of PyPy; it does a similar thing (turn an interpreter with light annotations into a JIT compiler) but you are in no legal danger.
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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by hyperpape on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:47PM (#13346528)
From what I understand, the JIT compilation RPython does isn't anywhere as sophisticated as Graal, and I can say from personal experience that the toolchain is pretty painful to work with.
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