On Thursday 16 August 2007 15:37:09 Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> On 16-08-2007, Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Is it possible to write a JIT VM in OCaml?
> >
> > It seems that this should not be possible as OCaml does not allow for
> > code generation at runtime. Am I mistaken?
> >
> > 	Thanks, Joel
>
> What about :
> http://cristal.inria.fr/~starynke/ocamljit.html

As others have said, Joel wants to write a JIT in OCaml rather than for OCaml. 
Although the OCamlJIT project was a nice idea, it is based upon the now-dead 
GNU Lightning library and its functionality was more recently displaced by 
the much more performant ocamlnat.

However, I think tools to enable JIT writing using OCaml would be most 
welcome. Not only the safe staged metaprogramming approach of MetaOCaml but 
also direct code generators.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?e