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		Locke1689 on Oct 23, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving from PHP to C saved my web startup. FYI, compilers are written completely different from interpreters. Bytecode languages are compiled as well.

silentbicycle on Oct 23, 2010 [–]

I know, but often when people make that distinction, it's concerned with what performance ballpark the language has rather than strictly implementation issues.

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