MIR JIT

[RussellHaley]

Hi Peter,

I just wanted to pass on some information. There is a new lightweight JIT called MIR - Medium Internal Representation. It is only 16,000 lines of code and claims close to native C performance in some scenarios.

An overview of the project is here: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightweight-jit-compiler-project/

MIR has been used to create a new "dialect" of Lua called Ravi. Ravi is a JIT-ed language that has optional static typing (sound familiar?). I haven't tried Ravi yet but it's on my todo list.

MIR looks like a very good technology and is written by a Senior GCC contributor. I thought I would pass on that tidbit. Feel free to close after you've read this. Cheers!