Brrt has hit the ground running on his MoarVM JIT Compiler grant. Here is his interim report: I wanted to start with floating point support, which has two subtasks: Ensure that DynASM encodes SSE instructions with variadic registers correctly. Ensure that the JIT itself accepts and works with floating point registers. I finished the first two of those tasks. For some context, x86-64 instruction encoding rules require an extra byte ... read more |