Re: Question on compiling to bytecode

[Daniel Bonniot <Daniel dot Bonniot at inria dot fr>]

> > As Per mentioned, bytecode optimization may be not efficient because 
> > we may
> > not see global picture of source code. I have just quickly checked 
> > Jscheme
> > is generating Java source file, jython does also.
>
> That is a disadvantage, not advantage, of those systems - it makes them
> much less responsive.    Either that, or they have to have a separate
> interpreter that duplicates the compiler logic.  
Doesn't Kawa also have an interpreter that duplicates the compiler 
logic? That is, each construct in gnu.expr has both a compile and an 
eval method, with (hopefully) identical semantics?

Daniel