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The feel when you realize the way #RashShell operates is not that dissimilar from #PartialEvaluation in #FunctionalProgramming

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #FLOSSConf #FLOSSConference

"rash: asynchronous shell" by Niels G. W. Serup […]

Compilers for free with weval With some partial evaluation and specialization hints, it is possible to get pretty decent speedups on interpreters by turning them into compilers.

“Compilers For Free With weval”, Max Bernstein (bernsteinbear.com/blog/weval/).

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#WebAssembly #WASM #weval #FutamuraProjections #PartialEvaluation #Compilers #Interpreters #Programming

Compilers for Free

“Compilers For Free” [2013], Tom Stuart (tomstu.art/compilers-fo...).

#Interpreters #Compilers #Parsers #CompilerGenerators #Programming #FutamuraProjections #PartialEvaluation #Ruby #JavaScript

A Neighborhood of Infinity: The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura

The #FutamuraProjections are mind-bending:

“The Three Projections Of Doctor Futamura” [2009], Dan Piponi (blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/thre...).

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#PartialEvaluation #Interpreters #Compilers #Specializers

Partial evaluation - Wikipedia

I’ve been meaning to check out #PartialEvaluation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial...) & #FutamuraProjections for a while:

“Writing Truly Memory Safe JIT Compilers”, Mike Hearn (medium.com/graalvm/writ...).

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#Java #Interpreters #JIT #MemorySafety #GraalVM