A note on JIT code

[Godmar Back]

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/391/suganuma.html
may provide for interesting reading.

	- Godmar

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> 
> Hi,
> 
>         I have been looking into the kaffe sources for quite sometime,
> especially the implementation of JIT. I am not sure what all were the primary
> considerations that went into, before the actual implementation, of the
> JIT code, especially to note that we dont seem to be doing coloring of
> any sort. Personally, I am not very much obsessed with graph coloring,
> though I am curious to know the extent to which redundant spills and
> restores can be mimized over the existing schema of the least recently
> used register, by "working a bit more harder" at compile time by
> generating graphs at the "right places" and trying to use as many machine
> registers to the non-overlapping slots as possible.  Has any worked on
> getting statistics on the number of spills and restores with the
> existing approach against the compile time overhead of doing these using 
> coloring approach or probably a "better approach"? If so what were the 
> statistics based upon? If not, just out of curiosity, is any one having plans 
> on improving the same :) ?
> 
> 	I do appreciate when one would respond with comments like coloring
> may not be very much justifiable for Dynamic Code genaration as against
> "proper compilers", but would certainly feel a lot more convinced after if these
> arguments are backed with some interesting statistics on platforms like 
> Intel for JIT code.
> 
>         I did go through the news groups archive, but did not find any 
> discussion threads on the same.
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>         Also please let me know if I am missing something in the overall
> picture. 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> -Anantha.
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