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by oblio 910 days ago
And your counterargument to that is... Ruby?
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Qem 909 days ago
Nowadays Ruby has built-in JIT compilation, through YJIT.
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oblio 909 days ago
Isn't that the thing where it outputs C and then compiles the C code and then runs that?
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ric2b 908 days ago
Yes, but it caches the generated code, so if you run a function 1000 times you only pay the compilation cost once.
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