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A lot of programming languages, e.g. JavaScript, provide an "eval" function for executing dynamically-generated code. Eval is a powerful mechanism but also challenging for the language implementation. The paper describes a unique approach to an efficient implementation of eval in the Julia language.
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This page is a summary of: World age in Julia: optimizing method dispatch in the presence of eval, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3428275.
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