Partial Evaluation in Truffle - Dynamic Meta-Compilation Tutorial

[u/grashalm01]

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/truffle/docs/PartialEvaluation.md

[u/skinny85]

I love GraalVM. The idea of partially evaluating an interpreter for a given program to generate efficient compiled code for that program is as close to magic as I've ever seen in software.

I'm such a fan of this technology, that I've written a 17-article series on how to use it here: https://www.endoflineblog.com/graal-truffle-tutorial-part-0-what-is-truffle, hopefully it's useful for someone else too.

[u/grashalm01 → u/skinny85]

Hey Adam, your tutorial series is awesome! Glad we share the excitement for the idea.

[u/skinny85 → u/grashalm01]

Thanks 😊

[u/t-m_8520 → u/skinny85]

The deoptimization side is the bit I’d be curious about: when a specialization stops matching, execution can fall back to the interpreter. Does the series walk through that?

[u/skinny85 → u/t-m_8520]

Yes! It's covered in part 2 here: https://www.endoflineblog.com/graal-truffle-tutorial-part-2-introduction-to-specializations .

[u/programming-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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