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A VM That is Dynamic and Fast

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2022-01-08 · latest 2023-01-09

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  1. …to write interpreters based on threaded code jumps and basic block versioning when I made MiniVM ( https://github.com/FastVM/minivm ). It was both larger and more dynamic than WebAssembly. I'd be very interested to read more about this. It…
  2. …to write interpreters based on threaded code jumps and basic block versioning when I made MiniVM ( https://github.com/FastVM/minivm ). It was both larger and more dynamic than WebAssembly. Web49 started as a way to compile WebAssembly to…
  3. …It was on HN a couple months ago[1], and has gotten a lot better since then (e.g. JIT). [0]: https://github.com/fastvm/minivm [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850562
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    MiniVM: “Minivm Port to Dlang”
    story by davikrr · 2022-01-19 · 0 comments
  5. …as arrays with elements which are 4 bytes in size, with 30 numeric bits for each character: https://github.com/FastVM/minivm/blob/4906256b2dc16e227cad7e... https://github.com/FastVM/minivm/blob/4906256b2dc16e227cad7e...
  6. The disclaimer at the top of the benchmark section - https://github.com/FastVM/minivm#benchmarks - seemed pretty reasonable to me. It's very clear that microbenchmarks don't tell the whole story, and that whole application benchmarks to…
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    MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C
    story by isaacimagine · 2022-01-08 · 57 comments