From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 14:10:41 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Mac OS X is Unix In-Reply-To: References: <201701032019.v03KJ8oq028944@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: <8B6E4879-2D81-4A24-A3B7-0AB38EA68EE6@orthanc.ca> > On Jan 3, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > If you even looked at it, Ellis does some really imaginative coding (compiling the internal loop in a data block and jump to it), it all portable and actually very easy to understand. For one thing the comments are there and very, clear. But that's not going to survive modern W^X. Unless you compile to interpreted byte-code, which mostly wipes out the inline loop unroll to machine code, no?