Interpreted languages and virtual machines are all well and good, but a new version of C++ signals renewed interest in old-fashioned native binaries.

Mono’s developers are now turning their attention to using the interpreter in mixed-mode code execution, which combines interpreted code and statically compiled code.

Nitro uses just-in-time compilation to dynamically convert interpreted JavaScript code into compiled native ARM code that runs as much as 2.5 times faster than interpreted code.