HiPE: High Performance Erlang
A “just-in-time” native code compiler for Erlang
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- Allows flexible, user-controlled compilation of Erlang programs to native machine code
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- Fine-grained: Compilation unit is a single function
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HiPE 0.92 released as open-source in March 2000 (see also www.csd.uu.se/projects/hipe)
- Released version was JAM-based (Erlang R4)
- Available only for SPARC machines