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Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers

Wednesday Mar 18 / 03:55PM GMT

We as a community have attempted, multiple times, to speed up languages such as Lua, Python, and Ruby by hand-writing JIT compilers. Sometimes we've had short-term success, but the size, and pace of change, of their standard implementations has proven difficult to keep up with over time.

Speaker image - Laurence Tratt

Laurence Tratt

Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering @King's College London