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Re:Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0? by dTal on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:15PM (#26134051)
> The "just ahed of time" compilation is one of those obvious-in-hindsight ideas IMO

It's not new. One of the most widely used Lisp environments, SBCL, works this way. So does Chez Scheme, and therefore now Racket.

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Re:Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0? by saiojd on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:49PM (#26134392)
That's interesting, I didn't know Racket worked like that. What I meant wasn't so much that its a new idea, rather that it's a good one.
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