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Neither Self nor HotSpot uses tracing. It's a relatively new compilation technique, the implementation in the original tracing paper used java bytecode as the s
by effn 16y ago
Neither Self nor HotSpot uses tracing. It's a relatively new compilation technique, the implementation in the original tracing paper used java bytecode as the source language.
I think you are confusing tracing with adaptive compilation.
- kingkilr 16y agoActually there's even older work using tracing for re-optimization of assembley :)