Hi all,
few months ago I finished the PhD studies and now my thesis is available, just in case someone does not have anything better to do than read it :-).
The title of the thesis is High performance implementation of Python for CLI/.NET with JIT compiler generation for dynamic languages, and its mainly based on my work on the CLI backend for the PyPy JIT (note that the CLI JIT backend is currently broken on trunk, but it's still working in the cli-jit branch).
The thesis might be useful also for people that are not directly interested in the CLI JIT backend, as it also contains general information about the inner workings of PyPy which are independent from the backend: in particular, chapters 5 and 6 explain how the JIT frontend works.
- Here is the summary of chapters:
- Introduction
- The problem
- Enter PyPy
- Characterization of the target platform
- Tracing JITs in a nutshell
- The PyPy JIT compiler generator
- The CLI JIT backend
- Benchmarks
- Conclusion and Future Work
cheers, Anto
congratulations.
ReplyDeleteYes Anto, congratulations!
ReplyDeleteImpressive work, Antonio.
ReplyDeleteciao
Very interesting stuff, still busily reading... could you write a short bibtex entry for citation? Thanks
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDelete(but when are we going to see it merged to trunk... ;-))
thank you, guys :-)
ReplyDelete@anonymous: here you can find the bibtex for the thesis, as wall as for other PyPy related papers: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/talk/bibtex.bib
@glyph: unfortunately, trunk has diverged a lot since the cli-jit branch, and merging is not an easy issue. There are also fundamental features that on CLI cannot be implemented as efficently as on x86. It's on my todo list, but no concrete plan so far :-(