alt Hacker News> Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.
> That's a partial evaluator, not an interpreter, and it converts an interpreter into compiler, which are different things.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/1sm90x5/retrofit...
Yes, that's another great example of the same kind of thing - creating a JIT from an interpreter. It remains true that interpreters do not directly generate machine code.