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[Michael Hudson]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:

> Could we now just all agree, once and for all, that compiling
> dynamic languages to native binary really can give significant
> speedups?

Has anyone really been arguing that?  Oh dear.  What *I* at least have
been trying to argue against is the idea that *any* compilation to
native code *must* result in a significant speed up...

Cheers,
mwh

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