Congratulations! any improvement on X86 hard coded offset for code patch? I mean X86 uses single pointer then a few constants closely coupled to X86 to patch code, which is a nightmare for porting. rgds joe
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Gabor Loki <l...@inf.u-szeged.hu> wrote: > From: Gabor Loki <l...@inf.u-szeged.hu> > Subject: [webkit-dev] Announce the ARM port of JIT > To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org, squirrelfish-...@lists.webkit.org > Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 9:57 PM > Hi guys, > > we are pleased to announce that the ARM port of JIT is > finally released. > > The source can be checked out from 'loki/arm-port' > branch of > git://code.staikos.net/webkit : > - git clone git://code.staikos.net/webkit && git > checkout loki/arm-port > - or see at > http://code.staikos.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=webkit;a=shortlog;h=loki/arm-port > > The aim of this development is to add JIT support for ARM > architectures. > > The port itself is developed from scratch, but we reused > the ideas of x86 JIT. So we > implemented property caches, stub functions, etc. in a > similar way, but the code is > optimized for ARM architectures. > > We used Qt4 build environment for the development, but we > feel that the other build > platforms can be easily extended with this ARM port. > > The current version is stable. It passes the regression > tests. > > We did measurements on a Nokia N810, and we gained 13% > performance improvement. > The memory consumption is increased by 3.3% which is a > small trade-off for this > performance > improvement. > > Our work has not done yet. We plan to add several other > features in the future. > > Please, feel free to ask any questions about the ARM JIT > here at the mail list or at > the following Bugzilla entry: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24986 > > --Gabor > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
