Stefan Marr

Senior Lecturer and
Royal Society Industry Fellow

Stefan Marr I am working at the School of Computing at the University of Kent. My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques, complex concurrent systems, and tooling.

Much of work revolves around making interpreters faster, detecting and preventing concurrency bugs at run time, and use modern language runtime systems to provide programmers with better tooling.

For contact details see my page at the School of Computing.

Archive of posts with the tag Golo

Dec 8, 2015: Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Easy Steps, Step 5

Step 5: Optimizing the Interpreter for Compilation
Dec 1, 2015: Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Easy Steps, Step 4

Step 4: Complete Support for Mandelbrot
Nov 24, 2015: Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Easy Steps, Step 3

Step 3: Interpreting a Simple Fibonacci Function with Golo+Truffle
Nov 17, 2015: Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Easy Steps, Step 2

Step 2: Adding Bit Operations To Golo
Nov 10, 2015: Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Easy Steps, Step 1

Over the course of the next four weeks, I plan to publish a new post every Tuesday to give a detailed introduction on how to use the Graal compiler and the Truffle framework to build fast languages. And this is the very first post to setup this series. The next posts are going to provide a bit of background on Golo, the language we are experimenting with, then build up the basic interpreter for executing a simple Fibonacci and later a Mandelbrot computation. To round off the series, we will also discuss how to use one of the tools that come with Graal to optimize the performance of an interpreter. But for today, let’s start with the basics.