[pypy-svn] r77900 - pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011

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Author: fijal
Date: Thu Oct 14 11:32:16 2010
New Revision: 77900

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   pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex
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Modified: pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex
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--- pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex	(original)
+++ pypy/extradoc/talk/pepm2011/paper.tex	Thu Oct 14 11:32:16 2010
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@
 dispatching. Those are problems that are usually not present or at least less
 severe in statically typed languages.
 
+XXX [fijal] I would say that the other goal of the JIT in case of dynamic
+languages is to compile only a common scenario and leave a guard (instead
+of proving that something will never ever happen)
+
 Boxing of primitive types is necessary because dynamic languages need to be able to handle
 all objects, even integers, floats, booleans etc. in the same way as user-defined
 instances. Thus those primitive types are usually \emph{boxed}, i.e. a small