Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:59:01PM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>If perl didn't break, I think Java will survive too. > > Emacs and perl both use traditional bytecode interpreters,... Perl5, yes. However, Parrot (the VM being developed for Perl6, and which may be adopted for other languages) does use JIT. Tim