Bill Baxter wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Robert Fraser
<[email protected]> wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
Don't know if this is of interest to anyone here, but I've seen this
on another mailing list recently:
http://code.google.com/p/asmjit/
C++ library to jit-compile assembly functions.
It uses function syntax to do it's think like "a.push(ebp);"
That's pretty cool already, but I was thinking with D you could just
write the assembly function directly as a string mixin. Or really
(even in C++ ) you could just parse the darn assembly function at
runtime. But then you don't find out about your coding errors till
runtime. With compile time parsing you get to keep the compile time
check to make sure the asm instructions are at least typo-free.
Also kind of relevant to the other thread here about compiling
different versions of the same function for different target
processors.
--bb
Semi on-topic, does anyone know of a a JIT assembler for D (or a good one
for C it wouldn't take too long to make a header for?.... Of course,
DMD+Windows has linking issues)
Maybe TCC fits the bill for the C? http://bellard.org/tcc/
"""
With libtcc, you can use TCC as a backend for dynamic code generation.
"""
--bb
Cool, thanks for the link. That looks good, but it is a complete
compiler, so might be sort of slow. Is there anything more
lightweight/designed for JITs that works on x86+Windows? There's libjit,
but that's Unix only AFAICT. Thanks.
