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		EduardoRFS on Aug 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OCaml at Bloomberg OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode, as you have interfaces files which drastically simplify the typing process. The compiling pipeline of bytecode is basically typing -> lambda -> bytegen Bytegen is really close to what Zinc does.

reecko on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

> OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode

But doesn't the compiled code run slower in bytecode mode? I think that counts.

pjmlp on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

Sure it does, bytecode is meant for development not for production builds.

The healthy mix of interpreter/JIT/AOT backends is what many languages miss on their toolchains.

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