--- Juergen Boemmels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I guess in future once the normal JIT works, and we've got the pigs > flying > > nicely then it would be possible to write a Not Just In Time > compiler that > > saves out assembly code and relocation instructions. > > > > Bah. That's "parrot -o foo.o foo.pmc" isn't it? > > And if we make C a parrot supported language we can even build parrot > with parrot? I was just thinking that myself. There are two issues here : 1. The gcc : I have %99 of the information about the function bodies of parrot c source code in rdf/xml. That could be fed to parrot. 2. The pnet/C : there has been work done by Rhys to make a managed c compiler for pnet. Gopal has been working on a parrot bytecode emitter for Pnet. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com