HiPE to be removed in OTP 24?

Tristan Sloughter t@REDACTED
Sat Jun 20 00:41:50 CEST 2020


The JIT will support tracing like normal. So even if it was on-par or even a little slower than HiPE I think that is reason enough alone to switch -- and reason enough to have been attempting at alternatives all these years.

JIT could be a solution that makes sense in general usage while HIPE because of its limitations (even before recent OTP changes that diverged from HIPE even more so) meant it was a niche tool. Very useful to those problems it fit, but still niche.

Tristan

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, at 10:45, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> Hi Kenneth,

> Thanks to Richard's link I was able to see the presentation about JIT and it looks like the team was putting a lot of effort since as early as 2012 into JIT. But on none of the benchmarks JIT was actually better than HiPE.

> I am interested, in what way JIT is better than HiPE that it's worth putting the effort into developing something new instead of fixing HiPE?

> Regards

> Grzegorz

> 

> On 18/06/2020 08:35, Kenneth Lundin wrote:
>> 

>> HiPE is the runtime and compiler support for native code generation of Erlang modules that some of you might have tried, it is part of the OTP repository today.

>> The OTP team is planning to remove HiPE in the OTP 24 release for the following reasons:

>>  * we plan to introduce a new way of executing Erlang, the "JIT" described by Lukas Larsson at Code Beam V
>>  * since OTP 22, HiPE is not fully functional (does not handle all beam instructions and combinations)
>>  * there is no use of HiPE among our primary customers. We actually don't know where HiPE is used except for speeding up Dialyzer which we have another solution for.
>>  * The current support for HiPE in the code is a blocker or creates extra work in our new development.
>> In order to not remove HiPE in OTP 24, we really soon need maintainers committing (long term) to keep HiPE in shape and up to date with the rest of OTP.

>> /Kenneth Erlang/OTP, Ericsson
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