[Mono-list] Mono / C# on PDAs

[Paolo Molaro]

On 11/25/02 Zaphod wrote:
> > The current JIT could support it, but we are not putting a lot of
> > development on it anymore, as we are producing a new JIT engine which is
> > easier to port.
> 
> Is the current JIT going to be maintained ... ?  (eventhough I don't like
> MCS ... the JIT is nice & fast ...)

If there is some common bug that shows up with the current jit, we're
going to fix it, at leat for the next few months until the new jit is
ready. There are some bugs in the current jit that don't show up
usually: some of them we fixed already in the new jit.

> > For small machines, there are different criteria that apply to the JIT
> > engine.  For example, the JITed code will most certainly include some
> > profiling data, and generate PIC code, to allow the JITEr to discard
> > unused pieces of code, and compact code to reuse more efficiently
> > memory. 
> 
> Would that come out before next March ? ... (I'm in a sort of hurry
> to deploy .NET on linux...)

Yes, we plan to release it before then. It's also possible we'll release
the basic jit this year, so that people can start porting and tinkering
with it. I think it depends mostly on how much people are interested in
hacking on it as opposed to just grabbing the source from a ftp site:-)

lupus

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