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Re:HolyJit: A New Hope by immutable_ai on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:32AM (#15515225)
Is this basically the same transition as V8 did with crankshaft to ignition+turbofan?
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Re:HolyJit: A New Hope by chrisseaton on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:34AM (#15515239)
I think that was the exact opposite - they generated an interpreter from their JIT. This generates a JIT from their interpreter, like PyPy and Truffle do.
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Re:HolyJit: A New Hope by _old_dude_ on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:41AM (#15515268)
It seems to be to generate JIT snippets from the Rust compiler, not an interpreter.
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Re:HolyJit: A New Hope by Sean1708 on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:46AM (#15515296)
As I understand it you write an interpreter in Rust then you generate a JIT compiler from that interpreter.
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