"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > About learning things before writing VM, I am sure I have to. What
> > I feel No VM or Interpreter can exists with reasonable performance
> > with have an immutable string class. It is altogether a different
> > matter what you call them.

That statement is far too general IMHO.  There are a lot more factors that
affect VM performance.  And a fast VM still does not guarantee fast
program execution...

Cheers

    robert

> And I think that the existence of Ruby -- which is quite performant
> for a lot of people -- suggests otherwise.
>
> -austin
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> Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com
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