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JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs


Hi Since my previous blog entry about JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, sadly not much happened due to a lack of time, but still some things were done (biggest improvement was the port to ARM64, a few optimizations, implementing more opcodes…). But I am often asking myself how to really beat the interpreter… And on “modern” CPUs, with a well written interpreter, that’s far more complicated than many would imagine.

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