On Sunday, 4 June 2017 at 19:24:27 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
If I'm not wrong, it also uses a VM, also if there's the
availability of a native code compiler...
If a VM is involved, it's another game...
Not sure if I follow that. If you only use safe code then there
should be no difference between using a VM or not. And what is a
VM these days anyway? (e.g. hypervisors and micro code caches in
CPUs etc)
Now, you might argue that some IRs are too complicated, and that
a simple IR is easier to get right. Or that some concurrency
models are more volatile than others. That is true, but it
doesn't have much to do with using a VM.
So the only special thing about using a VM in this case is that
it could allow an actor to migrate to another server while
running. Which is another game...
