Laurence Tratt personal blog
Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
C interpreters are a common language implementation technique and the basis for the reference implementations of languages such as Lua, Ruby, and Python. Unfortunately, C interpreters are slow, especially compared to language implementations powered by JIT compilers. In this post I’m going to show that it is possible…
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Software EngineeringProgramming Languages2026
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2026 | Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters by ltratt | 135 | 26 |
