17: JIT compiler for Beam with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg

We cover the news then talk with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg to learn about the new BeamAsm project that brings a JIT compiler to Erlang OTP and Elixir. This is a very exciting development for all Beam languages and they break down for us what it is, how it works, how it impacts us as Elixir developers, when to expect it, and they share insights into developing OTP. An episode you don’t want to miss!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/17

Elixir Community News

• https://2020.elixirbrasil.com/en/ – Elixir Brazil conference


• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir-LS 0.6.1 was released


• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto – Ecto 3.5 was officially released


• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/011-new-ecto-features-in-3-5-with-mike-binns/ – Ecto 3.5 interview with Mike Binns


• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.11/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.11 released


• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/003-elixir-1-11-preview-with-wojtek-mach/ – Discussion with Wojtek Mach about Elixir 1.11 features

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745 – The big pull request


• https://www.erlang-solutions.com/


• http://erlang.org/doc/man/HiPE_app.html


• https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit


• http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/


• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4xMarVUZQ4 – Luke Imhoff Elixir debugger


• https://rr-project.org


• Tools used for work on OTP - gdb, rr, perf, asmjit, godbolt.org, uops.info


• https://uops.info/


• https://godbolt.org/


• https://rr-project.org/


• http://blog.erlang.org – Erlang Blog

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/garazdawi – Lukas on Twitter


• https://github.com/garazdawi/ – Lukas on Github


• [email protected] – Lukas’ email


• https://github.com/jhogberg – John on Github


• [email protected] – John’s email

Find us online

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• Email the show - [email protected]


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