Computer Language Shootout - concurrency

[Will Newton]

On Saturday 03 December 2005 12:38, Thomas Lindgren wrote:

> Yes, in principle it could. A sufficiently smart
> compiler (similar to SELF-91) could even clone two
> copies of the code, stay in the fixnum version
> normally, and jump to the general version on overflow.

The psyco specializing JIT compiler for Python does this type of optimization 
on the fly. The implementation is quite complex however.

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/