Re: "just in time" compiler/translator for the simulators.

[fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

graydon wrote:

: [...]  another, slightly weirder approach is to scan your target
: programs insns and emit fully-specialized semantic C for those insns
: alone, and feed them into gcc, essentially pre-decoding and
: pre-extracting the entire set of functions used by your program
: alone. [...]

I actually built a working toy implementation of this sort of thing a
few years ago.  It worked fairly well, demonstrating a number of
predictable down-sides, and a number of exciting possibilities.

I never completed the paper on it, but its last draft may be of
interest to you.  If nothing else, it discusses various simulation
techniques, and it's fairly readable.

        http://web.elastic.org/~fche/gxsim.ps

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- FChE