Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > The second issue (which perhaps Kirill did not thought of) would be to > accelerate some internal optimisations of GCC by using JIT-code > generation techniques within the compiler itself. There are several > occasions within GCC where complex internal processing happens, and one > could imagine to "partially evaluate" them (w.r.t. to the compiled > source program) by generating some code specifically tuned to that > processing. BTW, the MELT branch was designed with such stuff in mind, > and indeed can generate some code (currently, it generates C code, run > the host compiler on it, dlopen it, and use it; in principle I could > have used libjit instead of forking a compilation process from inside cc1).
Yes, that's true. But it doesn't in any sense require libjit to be integrated with gcc to achieve this: the jit could just be called as an external library. > I still don't understand what Kiril is thinking of exactly. In contrast > to Andrew, I don't believe it is an April Fool's joke, but perhaps a > language issue: both Kiril & me Basile are not native English speakers, > and we may have difficulties in finding the right words & express > ourself fluently in English. For what it's worth, I didn't really think this is April Fool's joke; I was just trying to provoke Kirill into explaining his purpose. I seem to have failed to do that. Andrew.
