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by lpgauth 2100 days ago
This is amazing. Huge props to Lukas Larsson and the OTP team!

Some background on the journey to BeamJIT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHCs90kDX_wJ9AbLzGNu5bZKdIV...

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So this is not quite beamjit, but a sort of rewrite?
I understood it as a completely new, simplified approach that Lukas Larsson started beginning of the year.

It's not a tracing or optimising JIT, but instead at load time translates the BEAM opcodes to native code using asmjit.