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Re:Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java? by eru on Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:38AM (#14011637)
Number 2 is especially funny: isn't LLVM doing something similar-ish for C++?
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Re:Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java? by pjmlp on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:07AM (#14011736)
Kind of.

In any case, bytecode as executable format, goes back to the early days when CPU were microprogrammed.

It was also a common approach on mainframes, with OS/400 being the best example.

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