JIT and Ruby's MJIT
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If you already know lots about JIT in general and Ruby’s MJIT in particular… you may not learn much new in this post. But in case you wonder “what is JIT?” or “what is MJIT?” or “what’s different about Ruby’s JIT?” or perhaps “why in the world did they decide to do THAT?”…
Well then, perhaps I can help explain!
Assisting me in this matter will be Arthur Rackham , famed early-twentieth-century children’s illustrator whose works are now in the public domain . This whole post is adapted from slides to a talk I gave at Southeast Ruby in 2018.
I will frequently refer to TruffleRuby , which is one of the most complex and powerful Ruby implementations. That’s not because you should necessarily use it, but because it’s a great example of Ruby with a powerful and complicated JIT implementation.
What is JIT?
Do you already know about interpreted languages versus compiled languages? In a compiled language , before you run the program you’re writing, you run the compiler on it to turn it into a native application. Then you run that. In an interpreted language , the interpreter reads your source code and runs it more directly without converting it.
A compiled language takes a lot of time to do the conversion… once. But afterward, a native application is usually much faster than an interpreted application. The compiler can perform various optimizations where it recognizes that there is an easier or better way to do some operation than the straightforward one and the native code winds up better than the interpreted code - but it takes time for the compiler to analyze the code and perform the optimization.
A language with JIT (“Just In Time” compilation) is a hybrid of compiled and interpreted languages. It begins by running interpreted, but then notices which pieces of your program are called many times. Then it compiles just those specific parts in order to optimize them.
The idea is that if you have used a particular method many times, you’ll probably use it again many times. So it’s worth the time and trouble to compile that method.
A JITted language avoids the slow compilation step, just like interpreted languages do. But they (eventually) get the faster performance for the parts of your program that are used the most, like a compiled language.
Does JIT Work?
In general, JIT can be a very effective method. How effective depends on what language you’re compiling and what features of that language - you’ll see numbers from 6% to 40% or even more in JavaScript , for instance.
And in fact, there’s an outdated blog post by Benoit Daloze about how TruffleRuby (with JIT) can run a particular CPU-heavy benchmark at 900% the speed of standard CRuby , largely because of its much better JIT (see graph below.) I say “outdated” because TruffleRuby is likely to be even faster now… though so is the latest CRuby.
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