Implementation of the Programming Language Dino -- A Case Study in Dynamic Language Performance — mentioned by jashmatthews

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:23:52 GMT

This is simply not true. You're massively underestimating the overhead of a bytecode VM. Even the most optimal bytecode VMs are easily beaten by the simplest of JITs in 100 lines of C: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01290.pdf Code doesn't even need to be "hot" to make it worth it. WebKit switches from interpreter to cheap baseline compilation, without an specular optimizations or type information, after only 6 calls of a function: https://webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/ This article literally describes how baseline JIT is worth it simply to remove the bytecode VM dispatch…

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Implementation of the Programming Language Dino -- A Case Study in Dynamic Language Performance — mentioned by jashmatthews