[Mono-list] Combining JIT and interpreter

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Yet another idea is adding support for dynamic recompilation of
> jitted code, which IMHO is close in spirit to what you wanted to
> have (adding an interpreter), even if different...

Dynamic recompilation is not hard, the issue is what kind of guarantees
you want to make.  For example, is recompilation going to be used for
transplanting live code, like Java has to do due to their design
limitations?

If so, it is a lot of work, and it is not worth doing.

> Willibald Krenn wrote a working prototype for it in the past,
> search mono-devel-list archives for details.
> 
> Ciao,
>   Massi
> 
> 
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