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		chubot on May 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compilers for free with weval PyPy used partial evaluation at one point, but now it's "meta-tracing": Why did we Abandon Partial Evaluation? - https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pyp...

082349872349872 on May 19, 2024 [–]

Taking meta-tracing to the next level would reconstruct not just hot loops but even the original CFG, as speculated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778372

Anyone know of non-fictional work in this area?

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