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0 pointskryptiskt7y ago0 comments

Not at runtime.

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Varnish uses GCC to compile VCL into a dynamically loaded library. Not a general-purpose language, but it's done at runtime.

useranme7y ago

MemSQL and Smalltalk generate C at runtime.

pjmlp7y ago

If you mean Squeak, it surely does not.

Generating C is part of the bootstrapping process, it isn't used at runtime, the JIT generates the usual machine code directly.

floatboth7y ago

Which Smalltalk?

dfox7y ago

Smalltalk/X can fileout packages as C projects that are then compiled by C compiler. But AFAIK this was never meant to be used as JIT and is primarily an deployment mechanism and non-ancient versions use in-process code generator implemented in Smalltalk as JIT backend.

There are Common Lisp implementations that support similar mechanism of generating C code (ECL, Kyoto CL...), but I don't think any of then compiles C into .so which then gets dlopened right away as poor-mans JIT.

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