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Copy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
Copy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation
- lifthrasiir 3y agoThey were called "template-based" JIT and copy-and-patch approach is not new in this regard. The novel idea of copy-and-patch JIT was an automatic code generation via relocatable objects. (By the way, QEMU is indeed cited as an inspiration for copy-and-patch JIT.)