Re: [Libjit-developers] various free JIT libraries?

[Paul Brannan]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:33:24PM +0530, Gopal V wrote:
> Cool!
> 
> Btw, I assume you're aware of the first attempt ruby JIT with libjit?
> 
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/113779
> 
> Libjit's come a long way since that and I hope you find your efforts
> more successful than that premature attempt.

I was aware of it, but I decided to go a different route.  Rather than
build an entirely new interpreter, I built Ludicrous on top of ruby 1.8,
so anything that fails to compile will have something to fall back on.
It also meant I didn't have to implement a parser nor a standard
library, so I was able to get a fairly full JIT implementation running
in a very short amount of time (about a month).

I would like to see more compilers built on top of libjit -- it really
is the easiest to use and best documented out of all the similar
libraries that I've looked at.

Paul