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I haven't read any of the code to see how it compares, but this work reminds me of research from Nada Amin & Tiark Rompf on "towers of interpreters", where a stack of meta-circular interpreters uses some explicit staging operations that make it possible to specialize for the interpreter code in a way that removes overhead.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/amin-popl18.pdf

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This in turn, is based on black[0] which is an extension to scheme, which in turn is inspired by [1]

[0] http://pllab.is.ocha.ac.jp/~asai/Black/

[1] https://www.lirmm.fr/~dony/enseig/MR/notes-etudes/Reflective...

There's no relationship - tower of interpreters is related to lightweight modular staging

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1868294.1868314

This is just lisp or more broadly "I'm an interpreted language" since you know... Python has access to much of its interpreter runtime too . And if you think you can't do wild stuff in Python you can (hint: you can use ctypes on libpython to do way more than you think you can do).

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