[LispM-Hackers] Who is doing what?

[John Morrison]

Hi;

Poor form to follow-up your own message, I know...

John Morrison wrote:
> One of my big complaints about JIT stuff is that the JVM/JIT has to redo
> the work every time it gets the new code.  I am presuming that we could
> JIT stuff and then save it in the load band.  Maybe we'd JIT the entire
> Lisp world just before we saved to disk (JIT, gc, save band).  I don't
> know how the microcode-extension way (if it is feasible at all) would
> handle that kind of thing.

I know that this would be opening up the way for non-portable bands, but
I am guessing that machine-specific bands are unavoidable (right?)
because, with any luck, there will be device stuff saved in the bands,
and that stuff is machine-specific.

-jm

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