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by rwmj 1984 days ago
The "execution model" is so vastly different it's hard to even know what "JIT-compile hot loops from machine instructions to hardware" even means. I wouldn't even call HDLs "execution" - they describe how to interconnect electronic circuits, and if they can be said to "execute" at all, it's that everything runs in parallel, processing signals across all circuits to the beat of a clock (usually, not always).