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This is cool, but the post swaps in a tiny interpreter bc it says that CPython and SpiderMonkey are both huge. It then goes on to talk about modifying the interpreter to make some specific info visible to weval, and I can imagine that those changes would be considerable for CPython or SpiderMonkey. But if we ignore those specialization sections, and just consider the material up through the "Enter weval" section ... could weval have handled CPython or SpiderMonkey (or some other real interpreter that people use regularly)? Or does the partial evaluation have some scaling behavior that explodes or bogs down with large or complex interpreters? I.e. was the tiny interpreter needed just to make the following sections compact, or does even the basic use of weval require a small input?



You should wait for Chris's upcoming post :) the minimal changes are the same as the ones I have for my tiny interpreter. There are some more advanced changes you can make for more performance


Indeed; the tl;dr is "yes it works on SpiderMonkey, and was designed to do so". Blog post in a few months, I promise!




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