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by titzer 1118 days ago
They should just skip to the end and make the entire language legal to execute at compile-time. Virgil does this and many Lisps before it. You then get a heap against which the entire program can be optimized at compile time. C++ is slowly catching up to Virgil I for microcontrollers, ala the 2006 paper.