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Faster Virtual Machines: Speeding Up Programming Language Execution (2023)

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djwatson24
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Tail calling (with musttail)+ preserve_none are definitely the future of interpreters. Gets you ~95% of the performance of writing the vm in assembly, while keeping it high level. Unfortunately only clang and llvm support it so far, but hopefully we get some other llvm backend langs in soon!
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