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A lot of research and hard work has gone into TclQuadCode [0], which compiles Tcl (which is even more dynamic than JavaScript) into machine code via LLVM.

The authors indicated at one point it took around 5 PhDs to get it going.

[0] https://core.tcl.tk/tclquadcode/dir?ci=trunk

This is bizarre and fascinating. I had no idea there were Tcl codebases of a size that could benefit from this sort of perf work. How much Tcl is out there?

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