a version of pico (holzmann) for VAX by ken and rob used this technique. rsc did a version of pico where the repl just "compiles" pico into C, then compiles and runs it.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > Years ago The Commander and Bart Locanthi used JIT > in the form of some C that write machine code into an > array of chars, cast it to a function pointer, and called it. > (I appologise if the details are not correct but this is the idea). > > I have a need for such a thing again - trying to speed up > a compressed video decoder. > > Anyone done such a thing this millenium? Does the x86 data execution > prevention mean you just cannot do this - my targets are desktop OSs > other than plan9 (sadly). > > -Steve >
