Tromey: JIT Compilation for Emacs

bredelings — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:10:59 +0000

This looks really interesting. I took a look at the libjit C++ interface, and they have overloaded some of the operators so that you can write things like x*y+z instead of manually generating a multiply and then an add.

I wonder if they could not also give the function objects an operator() to automatically generate a function call. Although I suppose, if you were adding an operator(), if would want to use that to evaluate the function and get a result, instead of generate code for a call.

I think an equivalent to C's ternary ? operator would also be useful, although it looks like you could write this yourself without much trouble.

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