Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:07:46 -0700 Daniel Colascione
<address@hidden> wrote:
> If we need a compiler to make this happen, so be it. We'll just
> require libgcc, or hell, check it in to the repository, the way gcc
> checks in its dependencies.
> 
> An additional benefit of integrating with a compiler at runtime is
> the potential to JIT elisp code. Both LLVM and GCC these days have
> usable JIT interfaces. We could even serialize JIT traces in these
> user Emacs dumps.

Having a JIT for emacs bytecode (or some other IR) would be really
superb. I had no idea that GCC now had JIT support, but if it is as
easy to use as LLVM's, a prototype would not be a hard project. (I
presume RMS would insist on GCC as the basis.)

Of course, given that Emacs already byte compiles everything, maybe
going straight to machine code rather than the bytecode + JIT would
be good? Again, I don't know what GCC's infra is like, but if it is
as good as LLVM's that would be quite straightforward.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden