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\section{Case Study}  \label{se:case-study}  In this section we show how \osrkit\ can be used in a production VM to support aggressive optimizations for dynamic languages. We focus on MATLAB's \feval\ construct, a widely used built-in higher-order function that applies the function passed as first parameter to the remaining arguments (e.g., {\tt feval(f,x,y)} computes {\tt f(x,y)}). This feature is used in many classes of  numerical computations that benefit from having functions as parameters. \ifdefined\fullver such as iterative methods for approximate solutions of an ordinary differential equation (ODE) and simulated annealing heuristics to locate a good approximation to the global optimum of a function in a large search space.}\fi