freebsd-ports/lang/libjit/pkg-descr
Kirill Ponomarev c645a7ed35 Add libjit 0.0.0f,
The libjit library implements Just-In-Time compilation
functionality. Unlike other JIT's, this one is designed to be
independent of any particular virtual machine bytecode format
or language. The hope is that Free Software projects can get a
leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using this library rather
than spending large amounts of time writing their own JIT from
scratch.

This JIT is also designed to be portable to multiple
archictures. If you run libjit on a machine for which a native
code generator is not yet available, then libjit will fall back
to interpreting the code. This way, you don't need to write
your own interpreter for your bytecode format if you don't want
to.

PR:		ports/66038
Submitted by:	michael johnson <ahze@ahze.net>
2004-04-29 08:30:56 +00:00

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The libjit library implements Just-In-Time compilation functionality. Unlike
other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent of any particular virtual
machine bytecode format or language. The hope is that Free Software projects
can get a leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using this library rather than
spending large amounts of time writing their own JIT from scratch.
This JIT is also designed to be portable to multiple archictures. If you run
libjit on a machine for which a native code generator is not yet available,
then libjit will fall back to interpreting the code. This way, you don't need
to write your own interpreter for your bytecode format if you don't want to.
WWW: http://www.southern-storm.com.au/libjit.html