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		dragontamer on March 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters Hmmm, the 1980s was before I was born. But according to records, Smalltalk-80 was implemented with a JIT machine. See the paper: "Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System", which suggests that code was generated on the fly.

int_19h on March 20, 2019 [–]

Oh, there were definitely JITs back there. I meant the Pascal p-code specifically. UCSD Pascal, at least, was an interpreter.

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