Re: New project announcement - libjit

Hi,

> The libjit library implements Just-In-Time
> compilation functionality. Unlike 
> other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent
> of any particular virtual 
> machine bytecode format or language. The hope is
> that Free Software projects 
> can get a leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using
> this library rather than 
> spending large amounts of time writing their own JIT
> from scratch.

Or writing interpreters from skeeeratch ?.

> running real code, but wanted to release this early
> look so that people can  start helping out with 
> new backends, optimizers, and
> any other cool ideas  that you can think of.

I'm on jit_insn_call_inline from tomorrow (hopefully
it'll only take a day).

> eventually modify pnet to use it for JIT'ing.

Yay for ILCoder.

Btw, for the newcomers ... have a look at 
http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/2002-January/005615.html

Gopal


	
		
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