Squeak JIT status

Noel J. Bergman noel at devtech.com
Fri Aug 10 14:41:54 UTC 2001


> 1) The Jitter.
> This is a Just-In-Time Compiler for Squeak. This speeds up Squeak
> by generating native machine code on the fly instead of interpreting
> squeak bytecode...

> http://irafs1.ira.uka.de/~marcus/j3/

Are you planning to merge this code with Andreas Raab's source tree for x86?

> 2) Slang-To-Native code Compiler

> This was done as part of the mythical (and long gone) Interval Squeak.
> The idea was to build a new Slang Compiler that could generate not
> only C-Code, but native machine code for the target plattform. Then
> they added the possiblility to execute the code at runtime, without
> restarting the VM. (To add new drivers, etc).

> The code is available, but hasn´t beed used or maintained for some
> time. Only ARM is supportet.
> (Don´t have an URL for this, but I have the code somewhere... I think
> this is available at Tim Rowledge´s site).

I don't see it on Tim Rowledge's site.  Could this code be lifted into the
J3 tree to provide ARM Jitter?

	--- Noel





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