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Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:35:07 -0500
To: Nicholas Clark <n...@unfortu.net>
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:10:58PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> The bytecode is "compiled" by the JIT (at some point) - if there are a run
> of consecutive JIT-able ops, then issue a section (an isolated section) of
> machine code for those ops, and replace those ops in the bytecode with an op
> that calls that section. If there isn't a run of JIT-able ops, then just
> leave the ops as ops, and use the regular computed goto core dispatch.

Yep. That's the sort of use I created the enternative op for. Right now it's
used by the compiled C code generator. Basically the entry points to basic
blocks are replaced with enternative calls so that the transition to compiled
basic blocks of ops code happens transparently to the interpreter.

-- 
Jason