Research on partial evaluation (PE) was fashionable in the 1990s, but largely fizzled out. I was told that was because they could never really get the results t

Research on partial evaluation (PE) was fashionable in the 1990s, but largely fizzled out. I was told that was because they could never really get the results to run fast. I'm trying to understand why. Clearly meta-tracing and PE have a lot of overlap. Truffle is based on some variant of dynamic PE if I understand what they do correctly. Most of the 1990s work in PE was more about static PE I think. The paper [1] touches on some of these issues, but I have not studied it closely yet. [1] http://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla15-marr-ducasse-meta-tracing-vs-partial-evaluation.pdf http://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla15-marr-ducasse-meta-t...