On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Felix Rabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - JIT. I think it was Ian Piumarta who said in his recent presentation > in Germany that nowadays processing power is cheap. So why keep > software around in binary blobs anyway? As I see it, the computer > should be able to decide what software should be kept around in a > (just-in-time and then cached) compiled state and what should not.
I'm new to the project, but I noticed that this idea was alluded to in the "unreasonable behavior" paper in section 4.2 (footnote 16, one of the most exciting footnotes for me), so it's not only possible, but likely to happen if it hasn't already. Footnote 16: "This facilitates mixed-mode execution, where a method closure's function might be a shared interpreter loop and its closed-over state a sequence of bytecodes to be interpreted. Such bytecoded methods would be indistinguishable, insofar as their calling conventions are concerned, from methods fully compiled to native code." -- Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/ _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
