Artificial Intelligence
C++ gems
C and tcc: a language and compiler for dynamic code generation
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
DyC: an expressive annotation-directed dynamic compiler for C
Theoretical Computer Science - Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation
A brief history of just-in-time
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Evaluating Java runtime reflection for implementing cross-language method invocations
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java
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Scripting languages are ubiquitous in modern software engineering and are often used as the sole language for application development. However, some applications, specifically scientific and multimedia applications, often have small sections of code that require a higher level of performance than the host language can deliver. In many cases, the algorithm being optimized is simple and has a clear mapping to hardware resources. But, without introducing an intermediate language, developers generally have no direct methods to implement an optimized solution.In this paper, we present the synthetic programming environment, a run-time system for synthesizing and executing high-performance instruction sequences directly from scripting languages. Our implementation, available for download, is implemented in Python for PowerPC processors and gives Python developers direct access to system resources for performance critical code. We discuss strategies for creating and managing synthetic programs and provide two real-world examples, an interactive particle system and a chemical fingerprint comparison tool.