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A curated list of awesome JIT frameworks, libraries, software and resources

Awesome-JIT

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Libraries

Help you implement JIT

• AsmJit - Complete x86/x64 JIT and Remote Assembler for C++
• DynASM
• LibJIT
• LLVM - MCJIT
• LLVM - ORC - Successor to MCJIT
• GCC - libgccjit
• GNU lightning - a library that generates assembly language code at run-time
• Xbyak - JIT assembler for x86(IA32), x64(AMD64, x86-64) by C++
• sljit - a stack-less platform independent JIT compiler
• MIR - a new JIT backend in C being developed by a Redhat GCC maintainer
• NanoJIT - a small JIT engine originally written by Adobe for Flash
• nj - a JIT engine written in C++ based on Eclipse OMR. Eclipse OMR is used in IBM's Java implementation, but the JIT engine is generic
• Cranelift - A Rust powered JIT compiler for x86-64, aarch64 and s390x created by the Wasmtime team for their WASI interpreter.

Comes with JIT support

• Python

  • Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

Programming Languages Implementation

• Julia

• Python

  • PyPy
  • Pyston - performance-oriented Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques
  • Pyjion - JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR

• Lua

  • LuaJIT - An extremely fast Lua Just-in-Time compiler and interpreter.
  • MoonJIT - Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua Programming language. Fork of LuaJIT to continue development
  • Ravi - a derivative/dialect of Lua 5.3 with limited optional static typing and an LLVM powered JIT compiler
  • RaptorJIT - a fork of LuaJIT focused on predictably high performance.
  • LuaJIT Remake - A LuaJIT Remake that leverages new techniques like "Copy & Patch" JIT and an interpreter generated by the semantical description of LuaJIT Bytecodes.

• JavaScript

  • V8 - High-performance Javascript and Webassembly engine developed by google around the "Sea of Nodes" concept
  • SpiderMonkey - Firefox's Javascript and Webassembly engine using the WarpMokey JIT engine
  • JavaScriptCore - High-performance Javascript and Webassembly engine developed by Apple for WebKit. Uses the B3 backend.
  • Chakra - Microsoft's JavaScript engine. Used to be the JS engine of Explorer and the early MSEdge.
  • IV - Javascript engine written in C++ that supports ECMAScript 262 5.1.
  • BESEN - Javascript engine written in object Pascal.
  • Higgs - Javascript engine written in D. Made by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, the same fella who participated in YJIT cited below.

• PHP

  • HHVM
  • HippyVM

• Ruby

  • Topaz
  • MJIT
  • YJIT - A new Ruby JIT Compiler written in Rust by Shopify.
  • JRuby
  • TruffleRuby

• Lisp

  • CLISP
  • Pixie

• Smalltalk

  • GNU Smalltalk
  • RSqueak

• Prolog

  • Pyrolog

• Racket

• Java

  • HotSpot
  • Dalvik
  • Avian - A lightweight alternative to Java
  • Jikes RVM - Research Virtual Machine
  • Maxine VM - Metacircular Research Virtual Machine

• Erlang

  • BEAMJIT

• WebAssembly

  • wasm-jit
  • wasmtime
  • wasmer
  • WAVM

• LLVM IR

  • Sulong - an interpreter for LLVM IR written in Java using the Truffle language implementation framework and Graal as a just-in-time (JIT) compiler

• SOM (Simple Object Machine)

  • RPySOM - The Simple Object Machine Smalltalk implemented in RPython
  • RTruffleSOM - combining ideas from Truffle and TruffleSOM with RPython's metatracing

• .NET
• ZetaVM

• Ethereum

  • EVM JIT

Bindings

• llvmlite - A lightweight LLVM python binding for writing JIT compilers
• pygccjit - Python bindings for libgccjit
• gccjit - Rust bindings to libgccjit

Tools

• jitpy - Library to embed PyPy into CPython
• RPython Toolchain - framework for producing implementations of dynamic languages
• Truffle - Language Implementation Framework
• JITWatch - Log analyser and visualiser for the HotSpot JIT compiler

Papers

• [2003] A Brief History of Just-In-Time
• [2010] OCamlJIT 2.0 - Faster Objective Caml
• [2015] Pycket: A Tracing JIT For a Functional Language
• [2015] Making an Embedded DBMS JIT-friendly
• [2021] Copy-and-Patch Compilation: A fast compilation algorithm for high-level languages and bytecode

JIT in Database

• PostgreSQL

  • src/backend/jit

• SQlite

  • SQPyte

Resources

Twitter

• @LuaJIT
• @pypyproject

Other Projects (Not Designed for JIT but can be useful) -------------------------------------

• QBE - written in C, similar to LLVM but much smaller

  • QBE (Rust) - Rust implementation of QBE's IR
  • discussion <https://lists.sr.ht/~mpu/qbe/\<CAFbATBGDOmpxDoVD9eAudiqAMAFskD-sMeyOn5jz63iNeWYK0g%40mail.gmail.com\>>