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On 9/1/14, 1:57 PM, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
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> That said, I’ll also point out that we already have a bytecode “engine” in the kernel and a corresponding higher-level language which compiles into it.  That language is called D and the bytecode interpreter is the DTrace support code.
Actually I believe we have at least three.