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April 14, 2012
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Building fast VMs quickly

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Transcript

  1. Friday, April 13, 2012

  2. Hit me with questions as we go Friday, April 13,

    2012

  3. Building fast VMs quickly Alex Gaynor Friday, April 13, 2012

  4. Building high performance VMs for dynamically typed languages is hard

    Friday, April 13, 2012

  5. It doesn’t have to be Friday, April 13, 2012

  6. PyPy A framework for implementing high performance dynamic languages A

    Python implementation built on this framework Friday, April 13, 2012

  7. Architecture of a VM Tokenize Parse AST construction Bytecode compilation

    Interpretation Friday, April 13, 2012

  8. Let’s build a VM Friday, April 13, 2012

  9. https://bitbucket.org/ alex_gaynor/example-vm/ Friday, April 13, 2012

  10. Our language Approximately a subset of Javascript Variables Floats, bools

    Arithmetic if, while, print Friday, April 13, 2012

  11. Lexing and Parsing Write a grammar in EBNF That’s it

    Friday, April 13, 2012

  12. AST Construction Take a tree of syntax nodes, turn them

    into semantic nodes Friday, April 13, 2012

  13. Bytecode compilation Turn the AST into a bytecode. Friday, April

    13, 2012

  14. Object model How you represent your objects. Friday, April 13,

    2012

  15. Interpreter Simple bytecode interpreter. Friday, April 13, 2012

  16. RPythonize and JIT Friday, April 13, 2012

  17. That’s all folks! Thanks to Professor Moorthy Everyone in RCOS

    Friday, April 13, 2012