From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A Working (but Minimal) JIT
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:36:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaktyt2l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTikXJPHzb7ugVXY7PsMEw4oyR6F9oUH3Ccv=KyrD@mail.gmail.com
Hi!
>> * A uniform way to invoke native code from the VM, and VM code from
>> native code -- *preserving tail calls*. This seems to require either
>> trampolines within the VM or platform-specific tail-call assembly.
>
> This one could be hard. I can make JITed code call the VM as a tail
> call, because libjit will generate tail calls if you ask it to, but I
> don't see how to get from C code to JIT code without pushing onto the
> stack without either some assembly code or a trampoline.
You could cheat and assume that the C compiler does TCO (GCC 4.x does).
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 4:29 A Working (but Minimal) JIT Noah Lavine
2010-10-22 21:46 ` Phil
2010-10-27 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-10-27 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-10-27 22:53 ` Noah Lavine
2010-11-02 22:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-11-20 13:37 ` Andy Wingo
2010-11-28 20:56 ` Noah Lavine
2010-11-29 21:25 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-02 3:58 ` Noah Lavine
2010-12-06 22:06 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-06 22:53 ` Noah Lavine
2010-11-28 20:58 ` Noah Lavine
2010-11-28 22:36 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-11-29 7:18 ` Ken Raeburn
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