Papers

JIT Compilers

Deegen: A JIT-Capable VM Generator for Dynamic Languages. By Haoran Xu and Fredrik Kjolstad. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11469
CacheIR: The Benefits of a Structured Representation for Inline Caches. By Jan de Mooij, Matthew Gaudet, Iain Ireland, Nathan Henderson, and J. Nelson Amaral. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3617651.3622979
Copy-and-Patch Compilation. By Haoran Xu and Fredrik Kjolstad. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.13127
PHP RFC: JIT By Dmitry Stogov and Zeev Suraski. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit
IR JIT Framework a base for the next generation JIT for PHP By Dmitry Stogov Note: PHP JIT has both tracing and function-based architectures. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374470404_IR_JIT_Framework_a_base_for_the_next_generation_JIT_for_PHP

Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning. By Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert and Marc Feeley. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.0352
The HipHop Virtual Machine. By Keith Adams, Jason Evans, Bertrand Maher, Guilherme Ottoni, Drew Paroski, Brett Simmers, Edwin Smith, Owen Yamauchi https://research.facebook.com/publications/the-hiphop-virtual-machine/
Tracing the meta-level: PyPy's tracing JIT compiler By Carl Friedrich Bolz, Antonio Cuni, Maciej Fijalkowski, and Armin Rigo. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1565824.1565827

How the Cinder JIT’s function inliner helps us optimize Instagram. By Max Bernstein. https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/02/open-source/cinder-jits-instagram/
Allocation removal by partial evaluation in a tracing JIT. Carl Friedrich Bolz, Antonio Cuni, Maciej FijaBkowski, Michael Leuschel, Samuele Pedroni, and Armin Rigo. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1929501.1929508
Threaded Code Generation with a Meta-Tracing JIT Compiler. By Yusuke Izawa, Hidehiko Masuhara, Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, Youyou Cong. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12496

Cross Module Quickening - The Curious Case of C Extensions. By Felix Berlakovich and Stefan Brunthaler. https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.6
Inline caching meets Quickening. By Stefan Brunthaler. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps09/pdfs/brunthaler.pdf

Python meets JIT compilers: A simple implementation and a comparative evaluation. By Qiang Zhang, Lei Xu, Baowen Xu. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3267
Quantifying the interpretation overhead of Python. By Qiang Zhang, Lei Xu, Xiangyu Zhang, Baowen Xu. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167642321001520
Python Interpreter Performance Deconstructed. By Gergö Barany. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/gergo/papers/dyla14.pdf

An Executable Semantics for Faster Development of Optimizing Python Compilers. By Olivier Melançon, Marc Feeley, and Manuel Serrano. https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/MelanconFeeleySerranoSLE23.pdf
Vmgen—a generator of efficient virtual machine interpreters By M. Anton Ertl, David Gregg, Andreas Krall, Bernd Paysan https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.434
PHP RFC: A new JIT implementation based on IR Framework https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit-ir