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JIT VM in OCaml: Impossible?

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Date:	2007-08-17 (08:47)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] JIT VM in OCaml: Impossible?

On Friday 17 August 2007 08:52:22 Joel Reymont wrote:
> Just to focus the discussion a bit, I want to use OCaml to write a VM
> for Erlang. I don't want to write a compiler just yet so I have to
> deal with pre-built Erlang bytecode.
>
> My question was about JIT-compiling that bytecode in OCaml once it's
> loaded into my VM.

If you can do that, you can probably JIT compile to native code just as easily 
using the natdynlink branch (its awesome, BTW).

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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