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Re: Emulating vintage computers

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Emulating vintage computers
Date	2024-09-30 11:04 -0700
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:01:37 -1000
Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:

> More recent versions of zPDT have added a "Just-In-Time" (JIT)
> compiled mode to this. Some algorithm determines whether a section of
> code should be interpreted or whether it would be better to invest
> some more initial cycles to compile the System z instructions into
> equivalent x86 instructions to simplify the rocess somewhat).
> [...]
> FLEX-ES also cached the compiled sections of code for later reuse. I
> have not been able to verify that zPDT does this caching also, but I
> suspect so.

I understand the usefulness of JIT in circumstances where you want good
performance in an interpreted language, but may never know ahead of
time what code you'll actually be running (i.e. web browsers,) but I've
always wondered, in a system oriented towards running software built for
a virtual-machine architecture across-the-board, why you wouldn't just
statically translate VM instructions to native code at install time
(doing profiling/optimization while you're at it) and cache that
alongside the source "binary..."

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