A couple of the replies here seem to read that you've said something like "JIT magically makes single-threaded code multi-threaded." I'm a little mystified by the reading comprehension on HN...
You can write a multi-threaded optimizer that works on single-threaded code. Using multiple threads on multiple cores to optimize single-threaded code ... is pretty darn cool, but barbegal never said it made the single- into multi- ...
You can write a multi-threaded optimizer that works on single-threaded code. Using multiple threads on multiple cores to optimize single-threaded code ... is pretty darn cool, but barbegal never said it made the single- into multi- ...