Douglas Roberts wrote:
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, it's not very fast for one thing. Making every primitive operator
involve a blind function call means that ahead-of-time inlining and
planned use of CPU registers is out. It doesn't make fast code
impossible, but it makes the problem harder. At some point the harder
effort goes beyond what interpreted ABM toolkit folks will have the time
and energy to do themselves -- they just have to layer on other stuff
like Java, JavaScript or Python runtimes, and hope for the best.
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