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Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Google TechTalks
Paul Biggar's Google Tech Talk on compiling and optimizing scripting languages, drawn from his work on the phc ahead-of-time PHP compiler. He covers runtime typing, aliasing and code generation challenges, and argues AOT can compete with JIT.
Cited in PHP compiler and language-implementation discussions as an honest account of the real difficulties of compiling dynamic languages.
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