Millsa Erlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I heard that Parrot has a JIT compiler. If I understand this correctly, > does this mean Parrot bytecode is converted to native machine hardware > code before execution? If so, it is a good idea.
Yes, if the platform has the necessary code at least. > JIT is great, however, will it still be possible to run the Parrot > bytecode on the interpretor? Sure. Parrot has multiple different run loops, JIT ableit not being a real loop is just one of them. > Also, does the native machine code make calls to the Parrot VM, for > thinks like storing variables, calling subroutines, and so on? This > makes sense, since Parrot can still manage memory allocation, and other > things for the machine code. Yep. Basically all opcodes that aren't available as native JITed versions are executed in the plain run core. leo
