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Re: State of JIT compiler


From: John Swensen
Subject: Re: State of JIT compiler
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:23:34 -0500

On Feb 24, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Judd Storrs wrote:

> Again a lot of this is hand waving and speculation on both sides because we 
> don't have a profiler. I wouldn't make a final decision on whether JIT was 
> useful based solely on a hunch. Besides, a clever JIT doen't only have to be 
> about reducing execution time, it could also optimize memory use through 
> transparent chunking and auto-inlining.
> 
I am by no means a compiler expert, but from what I understand, this is one 
reason why an LLVM JIT implementation would by favorable.  I am pretty sure 
that the LLVM VM can do a lot of these things for you if the Octave code is 
translated to the VM bytecode.

John Swensen




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