Re:John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful
by Scaevolus on Saturday August 13, 2011 @05:02PM
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People usually use "compiled" to refer to languages that lower programs into machine code. Lowering the program into a bytecode isn't sufficient.
Bytecode interpreters must be carefully optimized, and still usually have an unavoidable performance hit from their cache usage patterns (e.g. from bytecode being in d-cache).
Re:John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful
by marijn on Monday August 15, 2011 @02:42PM
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Which is why dynamic languages are compiled to machine code nowadays. I'm not sure about ActionScript, but both JavaScript and Lua are compiled to machine code when speed matters.
Bytecode interpreters must be carefully optimized, and still usually have an unavoidable performance hit from their cache usage patterns (e.g. from bytecode being in d-cache).