From byron.ellis at gmail.com  Wed Feb 21 21:30:50 2007
From: byron.ellis at gmail.com (Byron Ellis)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:30:50 -0800
Subject: [Rd] JIT compiler library
In-Reply-To: <45DC9572.4090505@santafe.edu>
References: <200702211325.23611.vdergachev@rcgardis.com>
	<45DC9572.4090505@santafe.edu>
Message-ID: <7098abec0702211230y3ed4f073ra09b20126ac90c2e@mail.gmail.com>

I think work on Lightning picked up again when the work on GNU
Smalltalk started picking up again (there have been something like 4
or 5 releases in the last 6 months). IIRC it's a bit more lightweight
than LLVM.

On 2/21/07, Marcus G. Daniels <mgd at santafe.edu> wrote:
> Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> > Since this escaped my notice before, I thought it useful to post a link here -
> > in case you have not seen it either:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/lightning.html
> >
> > This a portable JIT compiler library with fairly easy syntax (one syntax -
> > many cpus).
> >
> I think it hasn't been worked on for quite a while, though.   Or has it
> development picked up again?
> Another idea is LLVM  http://llvm.org
>
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Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com)
"Oook" -- The Librarian



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