An obscure research project could accelerate innovation in language design

Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by mtdewcmu on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:37PM (#13347530)

>> "making startup time even worse than the JVM itself makes it unattractive

Agree.

Do you know if this can generate native code without any JVM dependencies? For instance, could I implement a C compiler that outputs optimized native code just like gcc or clang?

At any rate, it sounds like this research could be used to produce the tools we want, even if this is not it. For instance, PHP could use a JIT, if it didn't cause slow warm-ups and blow up memory usage.

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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by chrisseaton on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:58PM (#13347809)

> Do you know if this can generate native code without any JVM dependencies?

Yes it can! However you get a native VM that doesn't need the JVM for your language. You don't get a native executable for your application.

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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by mtdewcmu on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:15PM (#13348201)

How applicable do you think it would be to PHP?

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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by chrisseaton on Sunday January 08, 2017 @08:55AM (#13349679)

I don't think there are any language features in PHP that we haven't already tackled for Ruby, JS or Python.

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