Re:Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
by KRAKRISMOTT on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:12PM
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Copy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation
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Re:Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
by lifthrasiir on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @12:49AM
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They were called "template-based" JIT and copy-and-patch approach is not new in this regard. The novel idea of copy-and-patch JIT was an automatic code generation via relocatable objects. (By the way, QEMU is indeed cited as an inspiration for copy-and-patch JIT.)