Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 2024-06-17, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

The problem is that Bart's compiler is VERY unusual. It's customized for
his use, and he has lots of quirks in the way he thinks compilers should
work, which are very different from those of most other programmers. In
particular, compilation speed is very important to him, while execution
speed is almost completely unimportant, which is pretty much the
opposite of the way most programmers prioritize those things.

Most programmers use Javascript and Python, which follow Bart's
priorities. Fast, invisible compilation to some kind of byte code (plus
possibly later JIT), slow execution time.

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