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Alex Gaynor
April 14, 2012
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Transcript
Friday, April 13, 2012
Hit me with questions as we go Friday, April 13,
2012
Building fast VMs quickly Alex Gaynor Friday, April 13, 2012
Building high performance VMs for dynamically typed languages is hard
Friday, April 13, 2012
It doesn’t have to be Friday, April 13, 2012
PyPy A framework for implementing high performance dynamic languages A
Python implementation built on this framework Friday, April 13, 2012
Architecture of a VM Tokenize Parse AST construction Bytecode compilation
Interpretation Friday, April 13, 2012
Let’s build a VM Friday, April 13, 2012
https://bitbucket.org/ alex_gaynor/example-vm/ Friday, April 13, 2012
Our language Approximately a subset of Javascript Variables Floats, bools
Arithmetic if, while, print Friday, April 13, 2012
Lexing and Parsing Write a grammar in EBNF That’s it
Friday, April 13, 2012
AST Construction Take a tree of syntax nodes, turn them
into semantic nodes Friday, April 13, 2012
Bytecode compilation Turn the AST into a bytecode. Friday, April
13, 2012
Object model How you represent your objects. Friday, April 13,
2012
Interpreter Simple bytecode interpreter. Friday, April 13, 2012
RPythonize and JIT Friday, April 13, 2012
That’s all folks! Thanks to Professor Moorthy Everyone in RCOS
Friday, April 13, 2012