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FOSDEM and the future

Hi all, I realise I haven't written one of these posts for a long time. Since November, in fact. So you could be forgiven for believing I had stopped working on the MoarVM JIT. Fortunately, that is not entirely true. I have, in fact, been very busy with a project that has nothing to do with perl6, namely SciGRID , for which I've developed GridKit . GridKit is a toolkit for extracting a power network model from OpenStreetMap , which happens to contain a large number of individual power lines and stations. Such a network can then be used to compute the flow of electric power throughout Europe, which can then be used to optimize the integration of renewable energy sources, among other things. So that was and is an exciting project and I have a lot of things to write on that yet. It is not, however, the topic of my post today. Let's talk about the expression JIT, where it stands, how it got there, and where it needs to go. Last time I wrote, I had just finished in reducing th