2021/09/07 by Stefan Brunthaler, Brunthaler, Stefan · 1 voice · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #Security and Verification in Computing #cs.PL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.02958
openalex publication_date 2021/09/07 · arxiv published 2021/09/07 · arxiv updated 2021/09/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper presents important performance improvements for interpreters, exemplified by speedups of up to 5.5× for CPython. Although the original version of this papers was rejected multiple times, the reported speedups have not been achieved by any other interpreter optimization technique since. In addition, the paper uses a sound evaluation methodology based on a corollary on Amdahl's law to quantify the speedup potential of benchmarks, which also has not been used in any other paper since. This paper documents my best efforts, and includes all of the reviews the paper received, plus some more commentary on my side on what has changed since and what purpose the archived document could serve.