Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Andrea Corallo]

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 3:34 AM Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> wrote:
>
>  Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:
>  > Also, my understanding from this conversation is that trampolines may be 
> required at run-time that aren't known at
>  > build-time.
>
>  The list of primitives is known at build time, so is the list of
>  possibly needed trampolines.
>
> Dumb question: if trampolines are only used for primitives from the C
> source code,

Trampolines are used for call sites to primitives in native code.  They
are the reason why native code is fully resilient to primitive
redefinition (in contrast to C or bytecode).

  Andrea