Re: [Dotgnu-libjit] JIT for Parrot

[Aleksey Demakov]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Whitworth<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello my name is Andrew Whitworth and I'm a committer for the Parrot
> project. I've been working to start planning and designing a new JIT
> system for that VM, and some people have recommended that we look into
> libJIT as one possible JIT engine for us to use. What I have seen of
> libJIT is very impressive indeed, but I wanted to ask a few questions
> before jumping into any kind of decision. Parrot's future JIT system
> will ideally be pluggable, allowing different code generation backends
> to be used. libJIT definitely rises towards the top of the pile of
> things we would like to try first.
>
> 1) Is it possible, without too much effort, to use libJIT with a
> different VM without having DotGNU present?

Absolutely possible.

> 2) What are the release and support policies for libJIT? Are they the
> same as for DotGNU?

There are no any specific policies that I am aware of. It is released
when it becomes stable after a set of relatively big changes is
applied.

> 3) Is development on libJIT active and ongoing?
>

Yes, it is ongoing albeit a bit slow.

Regards,
Aleksey