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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] JIT (mostly off topic)
Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2014 16:53:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgyxtg8KZG7YJ2RxuHPVCRjXqe+tn8VOtH+A_2P2V4CnDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmJ82J_efG_1kZ-PF_n6B9hwba+rNp4Lrz432XqDRgu1yg@mail.gmail.com>

The original Blit JIT (stupid name - if the compilation was "in time"
we wouldn't need a JIT. Our term was "on the fly") version was
actually done by John Reiser.

My favorite JIT I wrote was to fix up floating point after a trap on the SPARC.

-rob



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 21:45 Steve Simon
2014-09-09 22:04 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-09-09 22:09 ` Daniel Peyrolon
2014-09-09 22:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-09-09 23:53   ` Rob Pike [this message]
2014-09-10  4:48 ` Bakul Shah

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