JIT?

Michael Latta lattam at mac.com
Fri Dec 17 03:42:00 UTC 2004


Bryce,

What are your plans for the JIT?  Do you plan to release the source to 
the community?  Did you plan for supporting other target machines, or 
will that need to be folded into the first port?

As soon as you are ready to have someone look at it, I volunteer!!  I 
am currently using an Apple G5, and a PowerBook.  So I am interested in 
PPC.

Michael



On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Bryce Kampjes wrote:

> Michael Latta writes:
>> What is the status of any effort to implement a JIT or other compiler
>> from bytecode to native execution?
>
> I'm working on a JIT like project called Exupery. Currently it's 10%
> slower than VW for the bytecode benchmark. Hopefully it will be faster
> in about a month. (VW is much faster for sends but I haven't yet
> started optimising them.)
>
> The compiler is written in Smalltalk. It's uncommented but there are
> a lot of tests.
>
> Lyndon is investigating a Windows port. There is also people
> interested in porting to the PPC.
>
> It's just a lot of work and there are only so many weekends per
> week. With funding work would go a lot faster.
>
> Bryce
>




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