[raattgift]

One of the things I like most about WebKit is that several of you reliably write awesomely informative commit messages.

(I hope Felix sees this particular commit sometime; I think he might feel a little flattered! Also, wow, that's an excellent summary by Peter Bex.)

Another is that you keep looking into old quiet dark corners of language nerdery and actually make use of the good ideas lurking there (notably while retaining the "no performance regressions EVER" tyranny).

I think there are some neat ideas Chicken Scheme's compiler too.

Also, did you have a raiding party on T when doing DFG? (cf. Olin Shivers at http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html starting with the paragraph, "This brings us to the summer of 1984. The mission was to build the world's most highly-optimising Scheme compiler." and notably also the paragraphs starting "Richard Kelsey..." and "Norman Adams...". . Always take ideas from Shivers, at least if they're faster in practice. Also, sorry for the several edits. I forgot how good this overview was, and how much meat is in it.)