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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] gcc4 host support
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:16:02 +0100
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:55, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:48 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > It's been said before that the long-term solution is to
> > [incrementally] remove dyngen altogether, and replace it with a
> > had-written code generator. I've discussed this in a bit more detail
> > with Fabrice, and have an almost-working prototype implementation.
> > When I get something that actually works I'll post it to the list for
> > comments.
>
> How feasible would it be to do this as an alternative front end to GCJ's
> JIT?

GCJ doesn't really have a JIT. It has an interpreter, and the ability to 
compile classes with gcj. I'd expect anything using gcc at runtime would be 
too slow to be worthwhile.

Paul