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Mar 30, 2020 at 01:00
JITs are blackboxes that can make it hard to reason about performance in production:
JITs are un-ergonomic
I lift my LAMP beside the github door. Keep ancient Fortran your storied numeric libs cries she. Give me your interpreted, your slow, the wretched refuse of your (insert pun for ‘teeming shore’).

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