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avmich on June 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp System Implementation

Remember, neither translation to machine code is guaranteed to be faster than translation to a VM bytecode, nor execution of such a code is guaranteed to be faster than execution of bytecode.

Annatar on June 2, 2019 [–]

The machine code has to be faster because the intermediate to machine code step, which impacts performance at least once is eliminated.

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