How to convert Block Temps? was: HotDraw in Squeak

Pennell, David DPennell at quallaby.com
Thu Jul 20 07:30:35 UTC 2000


> Last ECOOP in Cannes, Ian said (as he said before) that if someone is
> willing to update the compiler, that he'll do the VM stuff. 
> As said before,
> I am not quite sure what has to be done, or I would have done it.
> 
> 
> > What is this jitter-compiler?
> 
> Ian's research is about just-in-time (on the fly) bytecode 
> optimizations,
> which speeds up the VM.

If the compiler changes are made, would Ian make the changes in
the current VM or in Jitter?

What was said about the state of Jitter? 

-david





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