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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
King's College London
Article title
The Impact of Meta-Tracing on VM Design and Implementation
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Article number
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First page of article
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ISSN of journal
0167-6423
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
<08>Meta-tracing allows programming language interpreters to be automatically translated to Virtual Machines (VMs) with fast Just-in-Time compilers. This paper is the first to describe the techniques necessary to obtain optimal performance from a meta-tracing VM, drawing on the author's experiences of creating several VMs. It provides the largest cross-VM benchmark experiment to date, giving the first detailed understanding of the performance landscape. The techniques described now form a core part of PyPy, a real-world Python VM which is now used by tens of thousands of developers.
This paper's research led to the £618K EPSRC `Cooler' grant with Tratt as PI.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
D - Software Modelling and Applied Logic
Citation count
0
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
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English abstract
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