alt Hacker NewsI've been a low level C and C++ programmer for 30 years. Even with your explanation and having read the webpage twice I have no idea what this technology does or how it works. So it takes normal interpreted code and jits it somehow? But you have to modify the source code of your program in some way?
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fuhsnn • today at 12:27 AM
I don't fully grasp it either, the most appropriate analogy I can think of is like how OpenMP turns #pragma annotated loops into multi-threading, this work turns bytecode interpreting loops into JIT VM.
I think the website does an amazing job explaining it, but it basically takes an interpreter written in C and turns it into a JIT with minimal changes to the code of the interpreter (i.e. not to the code of the program you're running in the interpreter). For example they took the Lua interpreter and with minimal changes were able to turn it into a JIT, which runs Lua programs about 2x faster.