[Python-Dev] A new JIT compiler for a faster CPython? (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 01:07:50 CEST 2012

On 2012-07-17, at 6:38 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

What is the status of LLVM nowadays? Is it not a good solution to write a portable JIT?

I don't want to write my own library to generate machine code. You don't have to, even if you don't want to use LLVM. There are plenty of "ligher-weight" approaches to that. For example, GNU Lightning [1] or sljit [2]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/ [2] http://sljit.sourceforge.net/

And, there is also DynASM [1], [2]. This one was built for LuaJIT and is under MIT licence.

[1] http://luajit.org/dynasm.html [2] https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit/tree/master/dynasm

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