Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial

3 comments

• re 1 hour ago
  Related:

  Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553448 - June 2024 (51 comments)

  A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769874 - Dec 2023 (68 comments)

  Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547057 - Sept 2021 (7 comments)
• weinzierl 1 hour ago
  I think this technique also lies at the heart of the Cranelift project.

  https://cranelift.dev/
• shoo 2 hours ago
  the accompanying post "How It Works" is worth reading alongside this tutorial

  https://transactional.blog/copy-and-patch/

  (key terms: abus[e|ing]: 4, force: 3, trick: 1, chance: 1)