On 08/01/02 Fergus Henderson wrote: > There's no point trying to duplicate all of GCC's optimizations in your > JIT compiler; doing that would be a huge amount of code duplication. > It's much better to reuse GCC's optimizer, as Zoltan has done. > > Note also that GCC's optimizer has already been ported to a lot more > architectures than the mono JIT has been. For architectures where > the choice is to use an interpreter or an ahead-of-time compiler, > the ahead-of-time compiler should give a very significant speedup.
The jit is needed for several things anyway, you can't do without it, even if you have an ahead-of-time compiler. And there are several cases where the JIT can do better than any ahead-of-time compiler, even if it does less optimizations, simply beacuse it can do things based on assumptions you can make at runtime only. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
