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by int_19h 3498 days ago
Yes, that's right. But it's kinda what I meant. CIL is really roughly the level of C, plus some strongly typed object oriented stuff on top. It doesn't really offer anything useful for a dynamic language directly. But you can use it to implement a dynamic language VM with all those optimizations - just like C was used to write Parrot VM. DLR is to CLR as Parrot is to native code.