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		nickjj on April 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Type-Based Optimizations in the JIT Is the BEAM's byte code interpreter comparable to something like opcache with PHP? [0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.opcache.php

jlouis on April 27, 2022 [–]

BEAM is precompiled bytecode. The loader will peephole optimize the byte code replacing some instruction sequences with optimized variants. Bytecode resides in memory already, and there is no disk seeking.

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