Fwd: Octave JIT consultancy

[CROZIER Richard]

Dear List,

I asked previously about the possibility of funding some development of
the Octave JIT (see below, I don't think I received any replies). I have
a company and might be in a position to do this in the future. I don't
think I received any reply, is there any interest in this at all?

Further to what I wrote below, there is also this:

https://developer.ibm.com/code/2016/07/19/jitbuilder-library-and-eclipse-omr-just-in-time-compilers-made-easy/

The source of this JITBuilder library is published on github under the
Eclipse OMR licence:

https://github.com/eclipse/omr/blob/master/LICENSE

This actually states though that you can relicense it under GPL v2 (or
some other licences).

More blog posts on it by the dev:

https://developer.ibm.com/code/author/mstoodle/

It seems to be under active development, the actual library source is here:

https://github.com/eclipse/omr/tree/master/jitbuilder

It uses the open source IMB Eclipse OMR compiler


Regards,

Richard


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Octave JIT
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:45:01 +0000
From: Richard Crozier <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden

Dear List,

I wonder if the following new(ish) library might ease the process of
developing the Octave JIT:

https://github.com/jmmartinez/easy-just-in-time

There's a blog post here:

https://blog.quarkslab.com/easyjit-just-in-time-compilation-for-c.html

It seems to hide much of the complexity of LLVM (and the need to update
for the LLVM API, as the library maintainers will hopefully do this).

I am also wondering about the possibility of funding some work on the
JIT in the future. If any of the core devs is in a position to do this
it would be interesting to get an idea of what it might cost to make
some substantial progress on the JIT.

Regards,

Richard
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