At 9:42 PM +0100 8/1/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>Am I allowed to write ancillary functions I want the JIT to call in
>assembler? I presume that the JIT needs to go fast, and I suspect that there
>are some bits that are easier to write in assembler (eg rotates for figuring
>out constants) than in C, for the same amount of eventual speed.
>
>I guess it comes down to, are we assuming that the JIT always be run on the
>CPU which is is targeting? I suspect the answer ought to be "avoid the
>special case" and so the answer to my original question should be "no, make
>the JIT portable"
It's the JIT--evil things for speed reasons are almost obligatory. :)
Sure, go ahead and write whatever you want in assembler for the
target platform. Just make sure that you'll assemble on that
platform, and we'll be fine.
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