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To: weigelt@metux.de, 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:25:21 -0600
From: blstuart@bellsouth.net
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> * blstuart@bellsouth.net <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> If you're interested in how to do dynamic loading in a clean
>> and elegant way, take a look at Inferno.
>
> hmm, isnt this an interpreter-based system ?

The application language is Limbo which is compiled to
Dis machine code.  Dis is run in a virtual machine in the
kernel.  If you want, you can turn on a JIT compiler which
translates the Dis code to native code on the fly, but I
haven't usually found it to be all that much benefit.

BLS