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This looks like it is a small talk implementation with a lot of fancy nonsense terms to make it sound like it is something new. I've never heard the term "Liv
by CyberDildonics 3y ago
This looks like it is a small talk implementation with a lot of fancy nonsense terms to make it sound like it is something new.
I've never heard the term "Live Metacircular Runtimes (LMRs)" but they seem to think they are improving on "classic metacircular approaches"
- thomasjudge 3y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=Metacircular https://www.google.com/search?q=Metacircular
- danparsonson 3y agoI did indeed tilt my head to one side like a confused dog when I read that - this helped: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator
- hayley-patton 3y agoIt's a Smalltalk implementation written in Smalltalk, which is designed to survive its internals modified at runtime, which is the "live" part. The paper exhibits conventionally tricky bits to modify like the garbage collector and compiler, and describes some performance regressions they found which they fixed using the liveliness of the system.