Tamarin:Tracing

Tamarin-tracing is an experimental branch of the Tamarin virtual machine. This branch modifies tamarin to use a trace-based optimizer rather than a conventional just-in-time compiler. Trace optimization is a technique which holds promise for optimizing untyped javascript code, and doing so with a small memory footprint.

The new branch can be found in http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-tracing/.

External References

• A Quick Introduction to Tamarin Tracing
• Implementing Native Methods in Tamarin Tracing

Background Information

• Incremental Dynamic Code Generation with Trace Trees
• Making the Compilation Pipeline Explicit: Dynamic Compilation Using Trace Tree Serialization
• HotpathVM: An Effective JIT Compiler for Resource-constrained Devices
• Efficient Just-In-Time Execution of Dynamically Typed Languages Via Code Specialization Using Precise Runtime Type Inference