A while ago, I posted a link to this talk at Stanford by Eliot Miranda and Clement Bara on Pharo's (and Squeak's) new VM, Spur, and its Sista optimizer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Cvia-HZ-w
In short, it leverages the inherent type information of a PIC to speculatively inline jitted methods directly at their call sites.
Unfortunately, HN's spam filter eats threads started by new accounts, so I don't think anyone saw it. Maybe a regular user with good karma can re-post it?
In short, it leverages the inherent type information of a PIC to speculatively inline jitted methods directly at their call sites.
Unfortunately, HN's spam filter eats threads started by new accounts, so I don't think anyone saw it. Maybe a regular user with good karma can re-post it?