jit

Tags: compilers

Copy and Patch

• Xu, Haoran, and Fredrik Kjolstad. “Copy-and-Patch Compilation: A Fast Compilation Algorithm for High-Level Languages and Bytecode.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 5, no. OOPSLA (2021): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485513.

• JIT mechanism that uses autogenerated stencils to pass along different things into the stencils themselves, allowing faster JIT compilation