At the heart of software evolution is a sequence of edit actions, called an edit script, made to
a source code file. Since software systems are stored version by version, the edit script has …

Julia is a programming language for the scientific community that combines features of
productivity languages, such as Python or MATLAB, with characteristics of performance …

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a compact, well-specified bytecode format that offers a portable
compilation target with near-native execution speed. The bytecode format was specifically …

The realization of a language design requires multiple artifacts that redundantly encode the
same information. This entails significant effort for language implementors, and often results …

The R language, from the point of view of language design and implementation, is a unique
combination of various programming language concepts. It has functional characteristics like …

Computer systems are increasingly featuring powerful parallel devices with the advent of
many-core CPUs and GPUs. This offers the opportunity to solve computationally-intensive …

Tracing and partial evaluation have been proposed as meta-compilation techniques for
interpreters to make just-in-time compilation language-independent. They promise that …

In order to generate efficient code, dynamic language compilers often need information,
such as dynamic types, not readily available in the program source. Leveraging a mixture of …

Thanks to partial evaluation and meta-tracing, it became practical to build language
implementations that reach state-of-the-art peak performance by implementing only an …

What makes a good compiler IR? In the context of functional languages, there has been an
extensive debate on the advantages and disadvantages of continuation-passing-style …