It's slow because it calls Parrot::Jit::Assemble ~1time for each opcode and that implies calls to as and objdump.
Daniel Grunblatt. On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Simon Glover wrote: > > The latest version of jit2h.pl is taking a very long time to run on my > machine - upwards of two minutes, which is longer than the rest of the > build put together! It doesn't appear to be broken, as Parrot still > builds fine, but it is rather annoying. Any idea what's causing this > slow-down? > > Simon > >