Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r53975:8ae92dbdda48 Date: 2012-03-25 14:23 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/8ae92dbdda48/
Log: Complete. diff --git a/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst b/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst --- a/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst @@ -58,10 +58,15 @@ * Just-in-Time Compiler (JIT): `we have a tracing JIT`_ that traces the interpreter written in RPython, rather than the user program that it - interprets. As a result it applies to any interpreter, i.e. any language. - But getting it to work correctly is not trivial: it requires a small - number of precise "hints" and possibly some small refactorings of the - interpreter. + interprets. As a result it applies to any interpreter, i.e. any + language. But getting it to work correctly is not trivial: it + requires a small number of precise "hints" and possibly some small + refactorings of the interpreter. The JIT itself also has several + almost-independent parts: the tracer itself in ``jit/metainterp``, the + optimizer in ``jit/metainterp/optimizer`` that optimizes a list of + residual operations, and the backend in ``jit/backend/<machine-name>`` + that turns it into machine code. Writing a new backend is a + traditional way to get into the project. .. _`we have a tracing JIT`: jit/index.html _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
