Evaluating the trade-offs of using the Go-plugin API for JIT compilation while comparing the approach with a tree-walk interpreter
The goal of this paper is to evaluate whether the usage of the Go plugin API is feasible for just-in-time compilation of a query language intended for a high performance in memory data storage. This evaluation is done based upon the criteria of the ease of usability, performance and the robustness of the resulting implementation. For the sake of comparison the query language as well as its features are introduced. A just in time compiler is implemented and benchmarked against the same expressions evaluated with the currently employed tree walk interpreter. The paper explores the different possibilities for accessing the Go compiler, working with the Go plugin API and highlights several benchmarks comparing the performance of the new JIT compiler and the previous language evaluation implementation.