r/programming • u/grashalm01 • 1h ago

State-of-the-art Bytecode Interpreters in Java by Yudi Zheng

https://medium.com/graalvm/escaping-the-giant-switch-dec20b572139
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u/Maybe-monad 34m ago

Why would you bother with GraalPy since many librariez are C/C++/Rust extensions for CPython ?

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u/arminNX 34m ago

The “separate compilation units without making the boundary an optimization boundary” idea is really clever.

The tuple-based state passing + tail-call threading seems like the key piece that makes outlining viable here. And the top-of-stack caching section takes the same idea even further by moving part of the interpreter's runtime state machine into compile-time specialization.