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Foil 60 Integration of Interpreted and Compiled Environments

From The Use of Web Technologies (at NPAC) in HPCC Collaboration and Education Trip to Digital Corporation in New Hampshire -- May 8 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Java raises issue of role of Interpreters versus Compilers
Success of systems like MATLAB and languages like APL show relevance of interpreters in Scientic Computing
PERL, JavaScript, TcL, Visual Basic etc. indicate growing use of Interpreters in other domain
  • Natural as computers get faster!
We suggest that integration of Interpreters and compilers is an important research issue and could suggest new models for parallelism
  • We need both Compilers and Interpreters!!
Optimizing Interpreters (as in JIT for Java)
A library model where interpreted toolkits invoke lovingly parallelized high performance libraries
Natural linkage to interpreted data analysis / visualization

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