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aniviacatyesterday at 6:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Fil-C is a personal passion project by Filip Pizlo.

Do I understand correctly that this project is based on the work of just one person, Filip Pizlo? If so, that's amazing.


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pizlonatoryesterday at 7:01 PM

Mostly. A handful of people have made some very nice contributions though

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chubottoday at 12:25 AM

I came around to it a few weeks late, but Zef and this article by Filip are also great work!

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194

It has list of more than 20 optimizations for interpreters, with measured speedups. I'm pretty sure I was looking for something like this 3-5 years ago, but it didn't exist