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Polyglot From The Very Old To The Very New
Writing programs in a high-level language such as Ruby, with extensions written in C, is probably the earliest form of polyglot. In GraalVM we're rethinking this from first principles and actually interpreting C extensions using the latest in virt... Read more
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Turning the JVM into a Polyglot VM with Graal
Many programming languages need a virtual machine (VM) to run programs on. There are really fast ones, such as Oracle’s HotSpot for Java and Google’s V8 for JavaScript, but if you are using a language where the standard VM doesn’t have the same ki... Read more
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Ruby’s C Extension Problem and How We're Solving It
Ruby’s C extensions have so far been the best way to improve the performance of Ruby code. Ironically, they are now holding performance back, because they expose the internals of Ruby and mean we aren’t free to make major changes to how Ruby works... Read more
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Practical Partial Evaluation for High-Performance Dynamic Language Runtimes
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2017
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AST Specialisation and Partial Evaluation for Easy High-Performance Metaprogramming
- In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection (META), 2016
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Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing the Ruby Programming Langauge
- PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 2015
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Techniques and Applications for Guest-Language Safepoints
- In Proceedings of the 10th Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems Workshop (ICOOOLPS), 2015
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High-Performance Cross-Language Interoperability in a Multi-Language Runtime
- In Proceedings of 11th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS), 2015
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Dynamically Composing Languages in a Modular Way: Supporting C Extensions for Dynamic Languages
- In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Modularity, 2015
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Zero-Overhead Metaprogramming: Reflection and Metaobject Protocols Fast and without Compromises
- In Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2015
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Debugging at Full Speed
- In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications (DYLA), 2014
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An Object Storage Model for the Truffle Language Implementation Framework
- In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform (PPPJ), 2014