Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
by bronxbomber92 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:47PM
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I think nadav256 meant dynamically typed. I.E. most languages that target LLVM are statically typed, and this project is one of the few (the first?) to successfully leverage LLVM for a dynamically typed language.
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Julia is another dynamically typed language using LLVM. On the other hand, Julia was designed to use LLVM. I think this may be the first to succeed in dynamically typed language not designed to use LLVM.
What about Rubinius? (don't know much about it; does it not qualify as successful?)
Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
by erichocean on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @12:40AM
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There's also Python's "Unladen Swallow" attempt.[0]
Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
by bobbyi_settv on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:03AM
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Unladen Swallow is a dead project at this point (although many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston:
https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...