On: Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design

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RPython is very similar to Graal+Truffle, except that RPython is based on tracing and Graal+Truffle is based on partial evaluation.

There's a nice paper comparing the two approaches and their relative merits:

http://stefan-marr.de/papers/oopsla-marr-ducasse-meta-tracin...