Re: Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler

[Tom Tromey]

Paul> This sounds very interesting. I assume you'd publish it first on a
Paul> branch so that we could look at it?

Now it is feature/libjit.

Paul> libjit has only one committer, Aleksey, and no commits since March. Is
Paul> there a bottleneck there?

Another possibility is to switch to gcc-jit.  On the up side, it is part
of GCC, so it is maintained and widely ported.  The down side is that,
currently, it requires more capabilities at runtime; for example it
invokes the assembler and, I believe, uses dlopen under the hood.

One thing I've been thinking about with gcc-jit is that it would be
"relatively" straightforward to also have it work as an ahead-of-time
compiler.  What I picture here is a step during dumping where all the
dumped bytecode functions are compiled into a shared library.

It might be worth doing the experiment to find out.

Tom