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The libjit library implements Just-In-Time compilation functionality. Unlike
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other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent of any particular virtual
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machine bytecode format or language. The hope is that Free Software projects
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can get a leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using this library rather than
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spending large amounts of time writing their own JIT from scratch.
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2005-05-23 10:26:03 +02:00
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This JIT is also designed to be portable to multiple archictures. If you run
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libjit on a machine for which a native code generator is not yet available,
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then libjit will fall back to interpreting the code. This way, you don't need
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to write your own interpreter for your bytecode format if you don't want to.
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