alt Hacker NewsSounds like a copy and patch JIT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch ). The python interpreter was experimenting with this and it provides a decent speedup.
Sounds like a copy and patch JIT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch ). The python interpreter was experimenting with this and it provides a decent speedup.
Odd that the Wikipedia article gives 2021 as the first description of this technique when it is far, far older than that. I worked with a software rasterizer JIT that used it in ~2003 and I thought similar techniques were used in the classic MacOS m68k emulator on PowerPC.