YJIT Compiler for Ruby
Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust - Shopify

Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust - Shopify

5/11/2022

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This post details the experience of porting the YJIT compiler from C99 to Rust. It highlights the challenges of managing complexity in C, the benefits of Rust's type safety, pattern matching, and macro system for compiler development, and the integration process with the CRuby codebase. It also discusses challenges encountered with Cargo's offline build capabilities and bindgen's limitations when interfacing with large C codebases.

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