On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dmitry, > > >> So, let's put that to the test, shall we. I compiled and ran the "JIT" > >> compiler (can we please stop calling it that, it's not). > > > > > > This is JIT! > > My apologies. I interpreted your reply to an earlier email that you > were doing all of the code generation at compile time, not at runtime. > I should have dug into the code a bit more earlier, but what I looked > at briefly before supported that interpretation. > > However after digging through zend_jit_llvm.cpp a bit more I can see > what you're doing now. You're basically AOT compiling from PHP > directly to LLVM bytecode (a file at a time), then using LLVM's VM and > jit compile to compile to native at runtime. Is that the correct > interpretation? > More or less right, except that term AOT is not correct. We compile PHP file when it's requested (just in time). We compile one PHP file at once, similar to what AOT compiler would do, but we compile directly to memory and then execute it, Thanks. Dmitry. > > Thanks, > > Anthony >
