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		TimTheTinker on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular Right -- but all of those languages are compilable to bytecode without a performance hit from lack of dynamic invocation at call sites. That means the DLR is effectively dead, I think -- along with all languages for which the CLR's static call sites mean slowed performance.

pjmlp on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

So now the point isn't that many languages are supported, rather which ones make use of dynamic and dispatch interfaces?

TimTheTinker on Jan 21, 2021 | [–]

I’m talking about dynamic dispatch and the languages that depend on it for performance.

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