AI-assisted just-in-time compilation in Catalyst

There’s a long tradition of just-in-time compilation of code in livecoding systems, from McCarthy’s LISP systems in the 1960s, to the dynamic method translation of the Deutsch-Schiffman Smalltalk virtual machine, to the “hotspot” compilers of Self, Strongtalk and Java, to current implementations for JavaScript and WebAssembly in Chrome’s V8 and Firefox’s SpiderMonkey. Rather than interpret […]