JavaScript:Compiler References

JIT

• PyCon 2010:How to Compile Python x86 Assembly, the Python Way (3h talk)
• Tracing the meta-level: PyPy's tracing JIT compiler
• Trace-based Just-in-Time Type Specialization for Dynamic Languages
• JIT spraying and mitigations

SSA

• SSA-based Compiler Design Book
• SCC-Based Value Numbering
• Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Dependence Graph
• Value numbering
• Linear Scan Register Allocation on SSA Form

• http://llvm.cs.illinois.edu/~vadve/CS526/public_html/Papers/

VM

• The Implementation of Lua 5.0
• Language-Independent Sandboxing of Just-In-Time Compilation and Self-Modifying Code (see http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.internals/browse_thread/thread/4a63ab71f6c50fce)
• security implications of jit compilation
• Representing type information in dynamically typed languages
• value-representation-in-javascript-implementations
• The Case for Virtual Register Machines
• Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers
• Ropes: an Alternative to Strings

Garbage Collection

• Waste Not, Want Not Resource-based Garbage Collection in a Shared Environment (see http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.internals/browse_thread/thread/4a63ab71f6c50fce)
• Myths & Realties The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection
• Pauseless GC in the Azul JVM

Assembly

• Optimizing subroutines in assembly language
• The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers