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> Kind of, but that work (BEAM JIT, HiPE, etc.) was done by third-party academic researchers and then contributed to Erlang Is that correct? Lukas Larsson is a
by tiffanyh 5y ago
> Kind of, but that work (BEAM JIT, HiPE, etc.) was done by third-party academic researchers and then contributed to Erlang
Is that correct? Lukas Larsson is a core developer and he's been working on JIT since 2012. (While yes, I agree academics have also worked on it - the core team has as well for equally amount of time)
https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2012/speakers/LukasLarsson https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2012/speakers...
- derefr 5y agoMy understanding is that the integration work for these huge academic patchsets, took up the lion's share of any time the maintainers booked as "working on JIT." If not, these patchsets at least got in the way of useful progress in JIT work, redirecting "work on JIT" into themselves; where progress gradually slowed due to the "big ball of mud" that each of these patchsets were; and then all such progress was lost when the patchsets were given up on altogether.