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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by ihnorton on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @10:58PM (#7741960)
What about Rubinius? (don't know much about it; does it not qualify as successful?)
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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by erichocean on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @12:40AM (#7742232)
There's also Python's "Unladen Swallow" attempt.[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow

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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by bobbyi_settv on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:03AM (#7742277)
Unladen Swallow is a dead project at this point (although many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston:

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...

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