On: Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

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Copy and patch goes all the way back to Grace Hopper's original compiler implementation

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They were called "template-based" JIT and copy-and-patch approach is not new in this regard. The novel idea of copy-and-patch JIT was an automatic code generation via relocatable objects. (By the way, QEMU is indeed cited as an inspiration for copy-and-patch JIT.)