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HolyJit: A New Hope

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Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

#11

First thought was: "Is this another Terry Davis language/framework?"[1] No, no it is not. I would suggest changing the name from HolyJit to anything else. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

I'm wondering if Terry Davis is aware of the potential double-entendre (HolyJit->HolyShit)? which was probably the reason this name was chosen for the mozilla project.

Holy jit, that JS is running quickly. (Is it fast in that case? Quickly doesn't feel right...)

Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

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Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

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Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

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First thought was: "Is this another Terry Davis language/framework?"[1] No, no it is not. I would suggest changing the name from HolyJit to anything else. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

Well, now that you know you were mistaken, it won't happen again, and the rest of us can safely enjoy this rather excellent pun.

Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

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Checking other comments, it seems like this account has been hacked and used to post offensive comments.

Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

#19

Is this basically the same transition as V8 did with crankshaft to ignition+turbofan?

I think that was the exact opposite - they generated an interpreter from their JIT. This generates a JIT from their interpreter, like PyPy and Truffle do.

It seems to be to generate JIT snippets from the Rust compiler, not an interpreter.

Re: HolyJit: A New Hope

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Checking other comments, it seems like this account has been hacked and used to post offensive comments.

Then the original owner should send an email to hn@ycombinator.com to get it back.
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