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Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert edited this page Feb 4, 2014 · 2 revisions

The Higgs JIT compiler targets only x86-64 POSIX platforms. It is an experimental compiler in which I (Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert) am trying out various optimization techniques aimed at improving the performance of dynamic languages. I frequently blog about my research. I've also given a few talks presenting various aspects of it. The current focus on my research is lazy incremental compilation and basic block versioning, a type specialization technique.