Re: [9fans] pico

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

well i agree that russ did a good job but JITs are fun and often
make things 10 times faster.

brucee

On Jan 29, 2008 11:30 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Wow, that's very impressive!
>
>        open: /tmp/something does not exist (2x)
>        no image lerp
>        no image doug
>
> But you have a preview, which I was going to add soon.
>
> I am sticking with my code interpreter because I know how to use one
> (I toiled over hoc. and fossil ate my code up last December) and it
> doesn't require hooking to a C compiler. I do like the preprocessor
> idea though.
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> >> Byron Rakitzis (of posix rc fame) produced a version popi with the
> >> JIT
> >> compiler, though sadly his where for cpus which are common cpus
> >> these days.
> >
> > Computers and compilers are fast enough now
> > that you can get away with just feeding code
> > into a C compiler instead of writing a full JIT.
> > And there's no porting to do!
> >
> > I just put a pico on sources that does this - 738 lines,
> > not many of which are the "JIT".
> >
> > 9fs sources
> > cd /n/sources/contrib/rsc/pico
> > mk demo
> >
> > Russ
> >
>
>