On: How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

[smasher164]

Yeah I think if Julia had a plain interpreted mode or a base template JIT that could tier up to LLVM's, they could drive that execution latency down a lot.

[eigenspace → smasher164]

Julia does have an interpreter, but due to the multiple disptach semantics and the type system, it's a rather slow interpreter.

There's some exciting work that was presented in Juliacon 2026 though on an upcoming tiered JIT and this should reduce latency a lot, as you suggest.

It's kinda one of those mid-hanging fruits that has been known about for a long time, but not seriously tackled till now.