[pypy-dev] Any publications regarding PyPy / trace-based JIT compiler?

[Berker Peksağ]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Paulo Köch <paulo.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Also, I believe that Firefox, Chrome and Safari JavaScript JITs now
>> > are all method-based.
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>> This needs to be confirmed but, I really think Firefox's TraceMonkey
>> is a tracing JIT and Chrome's v8 is a method JIT.
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> Tracemonkey *was* a tracing JIT, at this point it's being (if not has
> already been) removed in favor of IonMonkey which is a method JIT.

Yes, it's removed from SpiderMonkey:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698201
http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2011/11/23/memshrink-progress-report-week-23/

--Berker

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