Re: JIT on Intel Macs???

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

We were interested but moved it to the backburner when it became clear that
we would also need to access undocumented aspects of Cocoa¹s exception
system to use CoCo with a Cocoa-based replacement for setjmp/longjmp
exceptions. This wouldn't have been an issue and as Mike notes the stock
release of LuaJIT works if you don't want to replace Lua's exception
mechanism.

Now, since you ARE at Apple...

Mark

on 5/30/06 9:14 AM, Chris Marrin at chris@marrin.com wrote:

> Since I work at Apple now, this issue is near and dear to me. 
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> Since Macs use Intel processors now and since Mike's JIT compiler generates
> Intel opcodes, it seems natural to use it on Macs. It would simply need to
> determine if the Mac was, indeed running an Intel processor and generate code
> if so and skip it if not.
> 
> Has anyone else brought it up? Are there any plans for it???
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