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Re:The HipHop Virtual Machine by rayiner on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:55AM (#8527133)
EDIT: That's what I get for not reading the paper first.
Re:The HipHop Virtual Machine by apaprocki on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:59AM (#8527148)
The tracing JIT was removed from Spidermonkey because it was brittle and didn't perform as well as the traditional JIT compiler(s) (Jaeger..., Ion...) that replaced it.
Re:The HipHop Virtual Machine by fijal on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:13AM (#8527237)
note that, confusingly enough, "tracelets" have nothing to do with "tracing JITs".