Nicolas,
How will your JIT code work. I presume you have to generate op codes
for intel and power pc code for mac & windows? Or are you just
supporting intel. Or do you have some other more clever plan up your
sleeve that is somehow processor neutral?
JIT will be X86-only at the start.
With Apple switching to Intel I'm not sure it's worth investing time on
a PPC backend and anyway I don't have the proper hardware to test it
correctly.
I am curious about this because I am a little worried about the
performance issues that alex has described here. I am going to be
running neko in an embedded environment on a 140mhz coldfire (68k)
processor. I havent been able to run any benchmarks yet because I will
not have prototypes for another month. But if it looks like the
performance isnt as good as thought, it might effect my application.
I hope that the reply I gave to Alex were reasuring for you. It might
also be possible like OSX to set some 68K registers in order to optimize
the inner VM loop.
Nicolas
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