Please rank 10 language implementations based on your best guess of their performance. stefan-marr.de/2024/02/rank-l… I am very curious how people would intuitively rank language implementations, some more well known than others.

Based on the first 75 votes that are in, the crowd-sourced current ranking. Lower is better. 1 point for rank 1 votes, 7 points for rank 7 votes, etc, then summed up. Ordering seems vaguely sensible, but doesn't exactly match my benchmark results. Interesting surprises in there

And is Wasm going to be the last substrate we ever need? We'll hear more in September by Ben L. Titzer. Join us!

In other news: We extended our deadline by a week. Please get your papers ready by May 23rd 23:59 AoE the absolute latest. And, if you like Christoph Kirsch, our PC chair, submit a little early, maybe even this Thursday. 🤓 I am sure he'd appreciate it. 😀 🧑‍🔬✍️

Box Plots, Or Better! 5 Reasons Why Box Plots are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance stefan-marr.de/2024/06/5-reas… #performance #benchmarking #visualization #paperWriting

PLDI will host several tutorials on Monday, June 24. Check out the full program here: pldi24.sigplan.org/track/pldi-202…

The 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2024) will happen on Tuesday, June 25, co-located with PLDI. Full program here: conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2024…

I am on acm dot org. wow. wild dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… Huge thanks to CF Bolz-Tereick for working with me on this project!!

We moved our work-in-progress deadline as late as possible this year. So, if you're in or around Pasadena, and do cool language implementation work, come and tell us about it! I hear, there quite a number of you guys in California 🤓🥼🧪 2024.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2024

SREPLS+CW, Deadline for talks submissions extended to the 1st of July. cw-srepls-24.github.io Functional programming and Language theory and Implementation talks welcomed!

List of papers accepted to ICFP’24: icfp24.sigplan.org/track/icfp-202…

Papers of the conference of Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes are available as open access: conf.researchr.org/home/issta-eco…

This year's DLS Most Notable Paper award goes to: SqueakJS: A Modern and Practical Smalltalk that Runs in Any Browser by Vanessa Freudenberg, Dan Ingalls, Tim Felgentreff, Tobias, and Robert Hirschfeld. Congratulations to the authors! Read the paper here: freudenbergs.de/vanessa/public…

Looks like we'll stream to everyone interested! 🤩

Are you already registered for SPLASH Conference? If not, check out our list of accepted papers: conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-spla… We're talking language implementation techniques, from debugging and JIT compiling on microcontrollers to visualizing execution patterns between CPU and GPU!

[Co-operative JIT Compilation for Resource-Constrained Low-Power Coprocessors (MPLR 2025) - ICFP/SPLASH 2025](conf.researchr.org/details/icfp-s…) mruby の JIT らしい

Final call for early registration for SPLASH 2025! 🚀 Join us to explore the latest in programming languages and systems. The early registration deadline is August 31st. Don't miss your chance to save! See accepted papers: 2025.splashcon.org/track/OOPSLA

Behold! Version 0 of a website! fil-c.org

How can you slow down a program? And perhaps more importantly, why would you? Blog post on our upcoming VMIL Workshop at SPLASH paper. stefan-marr.de/2025/08/how-to… The research was led by Humphrey Burchell.

Had a good inspiring break? Tell us about your latest ideas on language implementations, compilers, and VMs: 2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs-2… Can be just a short abstract, or something slightly more technical if preferred. Deadline in about a week, Jan 12th.