Lightning Talk: Expected Application of BeamAsm
summary
BeamAsm claims a JIT that turns BEAM bytecode into native code and shows 45% faster single-queue and ~30% faster multi-queue benchmarks versus baseline. Concrete expected uses are a code generator that lowers Enum/Map and pipeline ops to SIMD/vector instructions with measured 2.25–4.45× speedups on integer, float and string replace workloads; an embedded application‑level optimizer for domain‑specific algebra/ML/image kernels; and generating safer, faster native FFI/NIFs — safety and verification remain research challenges.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:17BeamAsm overview and benefits
- 6:39Code generation SIMD from Nx
- 8:12Application-level optimizer
- 9:57Faster and safer NIFs
- 10:58Summary and future work
