Nicolas, I remember you said that JIT is not used on MacOSX because of ABI problems, would this solve the problem in the mean time?
Regards, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Cannasse <[email protected]> wrote: > Asger Ottar Alstrup a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> We would like to do this, and have a few questions. Would the core not be >> to make a standalone compiler from the neko bytecode to LLVM bytecode? >> >> In other words, basically translate the code in interop.c into LLVM code >> and splice that together, similar to how the PHP LLVM target was >> bootstrapped? >> >> http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/Lopes_PHP-JIT-InTwoDays.pdf > > I guess the most easy would be to rewrite vm/jit_x86.c by using LLVM. > > Right now, each Neko opcode generates the corresponding x86 code without any > kind of global optimization pass. > > Using LLVM should significantly improve the speed of the JIT, and would > enable to save the resulting optimized code as a standalone executable. > > Nicolas > > -- > Neko : One VM to run them all > (http://nekovm.org) > -- DASNOIS Benjamin http://www.benjamindasnois.com -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
