Comment on YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRubyparentComments−noneeeed4yI went to a talk by the (one-of?) leads behind Truffle and it looks really great, but getting all C libs to work reliably did seem to be a big issue.The performance of Truffle is amazing when it works, but I think the compatability issue is going to hamstring it for a while.−kaba04yThe reason I’m asking is that Graal also has an LLVM frontend, meaning that C libs should mostly work just fine within the VM (with the added benefit of possibly inlining them, further increasing performance)
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I went to a talk by the (one-of?) leads behind Truffle and it looks really great, but getting all C libs to work reliably did seem to be a big issue.
The performance of Truffle is amazing when it works, but I think the compatability issue is going to hamstring it for a while.
The reason I’m asking is that Graal also has an LLVM frontend, meaning that C libs should mostly work just fine within the VM (with the added benefit of possibly inlining them, further increasing performance)