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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:
C interpreters underlie many of our most widely used language implementations -- but they're slow. Wouldn't it be great if we could turn them into JIT compiling VMs? This video shows what happens when we do just that to the normal Lua VM (first) and "yklua" (Lua w/JIT, second).
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- gifv: cbb50734acf885be.mp4