On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 14:11:20 UTC, logicchains wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 13:37:33 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
Hmm now if only I understand assembly better. And was able to
write a JIT then maybe. Maybe then I could implement my evil
ideas.
You don't necessarily need to understand assembly to write a
JIT. You could instead have your bytecode take the form of D
functions (such as int16 addI16(int16 a, int16 b), for
instance) so you're essentially generating an array of D
functions then iterating over them evaluating them. This would
obviously be slower than generating assembly directly, but
would still be faster than an interpreter, and you could still
do some optimisation on it.
Been there. Drunmeta [0]. Theres a reason why I'm not going down
that road anymore ;)
[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/drunmeta
