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JIT VM in OCaml: Impossible?

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Date:	2007-08-16 (15:16)
From:	Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@l...>
Subject:	Re: JIT VM in OCaml: Impossible?

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

I think this what you think is impossible to achieve ;-)

However, i don't know the state of the project.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall