Evaluator was performing poorly (in terms of runtime of the transformer itself) due to spending a lot of time duplicating substitutions inside definitions. Since evaluating a definition is essentially just a function, this adds DefinitionJit, which explicitly transforms function definitions into Scala functions mapping Option[Value] arguments into an Option[Value] output.
There are also a couple other speedups included. The evaluator is now fast enough to be competitive - we should try both the Evaluate and EvaluateQDef compilers, but my intuition is that EvaluateQDef will end up being the winner.
Note: There's a lot of (at least conceptual) duplication between Evaluator and DefinitionJit which should be cleaned up at some point.
Evaluatorwas performing poorly (in terms of runtime of the transformer itself) due to spending a lot of time duplicating substitutions inside definitions. Since evaluating a definition is essentially just a function, this addsDefinitionJit, which explicitly transforms function definitions into Scala functions mappingOption[Value]arguments into anOption[Value]output.There are also a couple other speedups included. The evaluator is now fast enough to be competitive - we should try both the
EvaluateandEvaluateQDefcompilers, but my intuition is thatEvaluateQDefwill end up being the winner.Note: There's a lot of (at least conceptual) duplication between
EvaluatorandDefinitionJitwhich should be cleaned up at some point.