Performance Improvements in Libffi

Software Development, Performance Engineering(atgreen.github.io)view on HackerNews
libffiperformanceoptimizationfunction call interpreterargument placementbytecodeJIT compilation

Author: atgreen

Date: 6/21/2026

Article Summary:
The author improves the performance of the libffi function call interpreter by introducing a "plan" that precomputes and stores the placement of function arguments, reducing the need for runtime interpretation and classification.