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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by sanxiyn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:06AM (#17672003)
> A JIT is planned but not yet implemented.

I see "Life (JIT)" in the benchmark plot. What is it?

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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by wrs on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:40AM (#17672270)
Well, there’s one in the repo that generates C code from the bytecode, compiles it with cc, and dynamic-loads it.
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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by nutjob2 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:39AM (#17672260)
It does in fact have a JIT, but just for (32 bit) x86.
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