JIT?

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Dec 16 20:46:32 UTC 2004


Have you tried to set up a collect?
How much money do you think would help to boost it?

Stef

> 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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