Faraday cages ( was Re: staticy plastic tubs )

[Jim Leonard]

Jay West wrote:
> If you'd read what some of the previous people have posted on this 
> topic, you'd get a clue. Instead, I'm left thinking you chose to ignore 
> any input that isn't what you want to hear.

I haven't read a single statement that explains how native, compiled 
code could possibly be beaten by an interpreter.  If I want to evaluate 
the expression "a := a + b" on an x86 machine, where a and b are 
variables in memory, I would expect a compiler to produce the following:

mov bx,b
add a,bx

You can't tell me any interpreter could possibly beat that.  As der 
mouse said, even if the interpreter produced exactly the same code, 
there is the overhead of the interpreter itself.
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