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Why (most) High Level Languages Are Slow (sebastiansylvan.com)
34 points by cpeterso on April 13, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Would it possible to write a JIT compiler that addresses cache misses and cache locality by paying attention to how it lays out heap allocations vs the order it's used in? I don't know if it's feasible, but it seems like it could work for a subset of situations.


Yes. Optimize for data, not code.




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