fantastic idea, good luck! On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:06 +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > Hi, > > Vadim Atlygin has been working on a LLVM backend for Neko, and we are > happy to announce that "Hello world" works now. > > For LLVM readers, Neko is a tight virtual machine, which is primarily > targetted by haXe. haXe is a statically typed programming language > that has targets to JavaScript, Flash, as well as Neko. Both haXe and > Neko are developed by Nicolas Cannasse, with contributions from many > others. You can read more about haXe and Neko at www.haxe.org and > www.nekovm.org. > > The current neko vm has a x86 JIT. The aim of this work is to get the > Neko VM to run fast on 64 bit machines, and hopefully improve > performance on 32 bit targets as well. > > You can get the code from this repository: > http://github.com/vava/neko_llvm_jit > > The work is still incomplete - only the first 10 opcodes out of 66 are > implemented, but there is enough to get "Hello world" and simple > arithmetic to work. The current port is still slower than the existing > VM, but that is expected. The next steps are to implement the rest of > the opcodes. At first, we will just plug them up to use c callbacks, > and then as a next step, convert them to real LLVM bytecodes later. > Until we have real LLVM produced for the opcodes, it will be slower > than the original VM. > > If you want to help out, you can contribute test cases for opcodes, > implement c callback implementations for some of the opcodes, or even > better optimized code for opcodes. We propose to use the Neko mailing > list for discussion on this. > > Regards, > Vadim Atlygin & Asger Ottar Alstrup >
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