Am I allowed to write ancillary functions I want the JIT to call in assembler? I presume that the JIT needs to go fast, and I suspect that there are some bits that are easier to write in assembler (eg rotates for figuring out constants) than in C, for the same amount of eventual speed.
I guess it comes down to, are we assuming that the JIT always be run on the CPU which is is targeting? I suspect the answer ought to be "avoid the special case" and so the answer to my original question should be "no, make the JIT portable" Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
