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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

You may also want to look at Dawson Engler's VCODE. Like GNU Lightning 
it's not been touched in a while.

Ian

Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:

>On Thu, 19 May 2005, Paul Brook wrote:
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>>Do you have a URL? Neither google nor freshmeat.net turn up anything useful.
>>    
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>Sorry, here it is:
><http://svn.valgrind.org/vex/trunk/> (used for valgrind 3.0)
><http://www.valgrind.org/devel/cvs_svn.html>
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>>It would be nice if we could use some sort of portable JIT library, however I 
>>think in reality a few qemu specific hacks(most of which we already use with 
>>dyngen) and a relatively dumb JIT are going to perform better.
>>    
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>
>What about using GNU lightning as an intermediate solution? It has a 
>RISC-style ISA with up to 6 registers exposed. It's "dumb" (no 
>optimization) but it's good at generating code. I think it matches most 
>the "synthetic instruction" approach of dyngen.
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