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This page should help interested persons | This page should help interested persons which want to start hacking on the current JIT implementation in octave. It's '''NOT''' intended for octave users. | ||
Last year, thanks to Max Brister's work, an initial implement of a just-in-time compiler (JITC) in LLVM for GSoC 2012. [http://planet.octave.org/octconf2012/jit.pdf Here] is Max's [[OctConf 2012]] presentation about his current implementation. | |||
=== Recommended reading === | === Recommended reading === | ||
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*jit-util.cc (& jit-util.h) | *jit-util.cc (& jit-util.h) | ||
I haven't gone through all parts of the code yet and | I haven't gone through all parts of the code yet and dont understand a lot of it, but my first impression is that it feels like more of a text dump. The various parts need to be seperated into different files based on functionality. The current files are a tad too big IMHO. Right now all of the jit parts are in 4 files(+4 header files) which are quite large and a lot of it has no documentaion to explain how the different parts come togeather. | ||
To be fair my impressions/opinions are that of a beginner level user and you are welcome to have a look and post your own comments. | To be fair my impressions/opinions are that of a beginner level user and you are welcome to have a look and post your own comments. |