[Lightning] Re: About using lightning on a dynamically typed language

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

>>  I understand that it may make it significantly hard to implement as
>> pure jit, but I was wondering how/if it could be made in a way where
>> it kind of "cut&paste" blocks of compiled code
>
> People tried that but it's very difficult as more optimizations were
> added to modern GCC. lightning could be used to cut&paste those blocks
> after you converted them from C to lightning's pseudo-assembly.

I tried something along these lines in the past:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/2005-09/msg00000.html
  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libchop.git/tree/src/chopper-anchor-based.c#n294

It wasn’t conclusive.

Thanks,
Ludo’.