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Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2013-06-08 · latest 2016-07-30

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  1. Higgs is a JavaScript JIT compiler written in D. https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs
    comment by brett40324 · 2016-07-30 · in Ask HN: What are you using D (language) for?
  2. Great job. Do you know this interpreter ? (in D) https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs It's one of the most advanced I found (outside browsers). If you want to get rid of the "switch/case", you can look at threaded code interpreters.…
  3. I agree. It's not as hard as one might think. I implemented my own handwritten JS parser using TDOP: https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs/blob/master/source/parser/p... I think it's more flexible and maintainable this way. I didn't have to…
    comment by tachyonbeam · 2015-01-04 · in Make Your Own Programming Language
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    Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine
    story by jermo · 2014-11-15 · 28 comments
  5. …biased, but this was one of my favorite talks at DConf :3. You can find the source to higgs on GH: https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs More info is on Maxime's blog: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/ And our subreddit:…
    comment by tach4n · 2014-07-03 · in Refactoring JIT Compilation [video]
  6. …(heck, come hang out even if you don't want to contribute) or check out the issues on Github: https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs
    comment by teebrz · 2014-03-07 · in Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
  7. If anyone wants to delve more into the workings of a JS VM, I've found the code of Higgs ( https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs ) to be very straightforward and readable. The interpreter and JIT are written in D and much of the run-time is…
    comment by thejsjunky · 2013-06-09 · in How JavaScript compilers work
  8. Nice. Interested readers may also want to check out Higgs: https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs
    comment by thejsjunky · 2013-06-08 · in How JavaScript compilers work