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What's a good starting point for someone to study that? Specifically going from an interpreter to a compiler automatically. Are there any special considerations

What's a good starting point for someone to study that? Specifically going from an interpreter to a compiler automatically. Are there any special considerations before implementing the interpreter? I'm vaguely familiar with RPython which I think delivers on that. For context: I'm just a hobbyist interested in PLs and want to learn more about JITs, I found Crafting Interpreters super helpful for a lot of foundational knowledge.

chrisseaton 4y ago
Yeah RPython and Truffle/Graal are the two major implementations of this idea today. https://www3.hhu.de/stups/downloads/pdf/BoCuFiRi09_246.pdf https://www3.hhu.de/stups/downloads/pdf/BoCuFiRi09_246.pdf https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/pldi17-truffle/pldi17-truffle.pdf https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/pldi17-truffle/pldi17-tr...
comment500 4y ago
ChakraCore, the former JavaScript engine of Microsoft's Edge browser, has in its repo a decent high-level description of how its JIT compilation is integrated: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-Overview https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-... I found the source code to be quite readable too, last time I delved into it. Also its command line tool ("ch"), when compiled in debug mode, has loads of options available to show what it's doing internally when it executes a JavaScript program.