Just-in-time compiler for the Erlang VM: Lukas Larsson

Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2012

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"After the success of the Java Hot Spot VM, just-in-time compilers are become more and more popular in more and more languages. Just-in-time compilers attempt to make code run faster by compiling parts of your programs to native code in order to speed up execution time. Just-in-time compilers have been shown to speed up performance by up to a factor of 5 for specific benchmarks and it is about time that the Erlang VM is fitted with one of its own.

This talk will give a brief overview of the different approaches one can take to just-in-time compiling and then dive into the details of how the Erlang VM executes code. After laying the ground work I will try to explain how a JIT can be done for the Erlang VM and finish of with a status report of what work has been done so far. "

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