Less is More. Octave Larose talking about optimizing Truffle interpreters.

Research people: what would you consider your ideal balance between broadening your horizons by reading into various interesting topics you're less familiar with, and zeroing in on your main topic of interest?

.Octave Larose is now presenting our OOPSLA paper: AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation 2023.splashcon.org/details/splash…

I'm pushing the performance of our Rust-based SOM interpreters, and I wrote a quick blog post about an optimization I recently implemented. Gonna try to make this more of a regular thing for extra motivation (and hopefully valuable feedback) octavelarose.github.io/2024/05/29/to-…

Wrote a thing about implementing inline caching in our Rust-based AST interpreter. If anyone knows how to make Rust play more nicely with self-modifying tree structures, do let me know octavelarose.github.io/2024/06/06/ast…

Had been a little while since my last post about our Rust interpreters, but I'm back to show the world that I'm relying on the unsafe keyword more now. I'm not quite sure how evil I am, let me know octavelarose.github.io/2024/07/08/uns…

Wrote a big old thing about using MMTk in our Rust-based interpreters. That was fun to make and write! octavelarose.github.io/2025/01/30/mmt…

Ah yes I should really tweet these things myself. Yes we wrote a paper, and it is nice and great