News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language. Parent comment

Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by ufo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @07:30PM (#17412801)
In theory the programming language is independent from the implementation. You could write an alternate implementation if you wanted.

JIT-ness is a concept related to the implementation, not to the language.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by jamestimmins on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @09:19PM (#17413341)
Gotcha, that makes sense. So I'm guessing that java based python vs c based python is an example of theory vs implementation? Thanks for explaining!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by ufo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @10:11PM (#17413547)
Yup
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by developer-mike on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:28PM (#17420629)
The language is, however, designed to be JITted. Languages are not designed in isolation.
[ Parent | on HN ]