On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:31:34PM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote:
> Well, I just know that currently no bytecoded language (Java/.NET/OcaML 
> bytecode)  could give me the 7 to 8 times performance boost in run time 
> taken by some of the network topology analysis tools I made for my 
> research work. [...] You are right 
> about the fact that dynamic run-time optimizations might be interesting 
> from a performance perspective esp. looking at a functional value 
> oriented language like ML. However, it is still a "research" problem 
> and has research interest.

I'd like to say in addition, the HP Dynamo project, where a lot of
this hope for dynamic recompilation came from, recompiled native
executables.

Rich.

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