Copy-and-Patch Compilation

Haoran Xu; Fredrik Kjolstad

doi:10.1145/3485513

OOPSLA · November 2021

Copy-and-Patch Compilation

Haoran Xu Fredrik Kjolstad

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications · PACMPL vol. 5, OOPSLA

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Topics Meta-compilation, JITs & VMs

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Copy-and-Patch Compilation A technique that generates machine code by copying pre-built binary stencils and patching in constants and addresses, producing baseline code far faster than a traditional compiler backend.

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Haoran Xu and Fredrik Kjolstad. Copy-and-Patch Compilation. OOPSLA, 2021.

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@inproceedings{xu2021copyandpatch,
  title     = {Copy-and-Patch Compilation},
  author    = {Haoran Xu and Fredrik Kjolstad},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications},
  year      = {2021},
  month     = {nov},
  doi       = {10.1145/3485513},
  url       = {https://compilers.stanford.edu/publications/copy-and-patch.pdf}
}

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