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Would it be possible to use these techniques on the various JITs that are used in Firefox/Cheomium? How hard would that be? The work you folks are doing is wonderful.


I did my Master's dissertation on superoptimization and the JVM. Tl;Dr managed to find shorter versions of simple Java math functions fairly easily, didn't prove they were any faster or better.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_8w6H4BG5E_TmxwbkRKRnhUM0k/...

And

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2240/abstract


Well, if the work gets merged into/applied to LLVM, then Safari should get these benefits "for free" under the new FTLJIT.




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