Just-In-Time (JIT) Compilation Support Merged For GCC 5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Just-In-Time (JIT) Compilation Support Merged For GCC 5

Just in time for posing more competition to LLVM's compiler infrastructure, the GNU Compiler Collection now has JIT support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgzNjk

[-MacNuke-]

The fruits of competition.

[uid313]

Usefulness?

This is really cool!

I suppose this can be integrated with a IDE to provide things like real-time validation of code as you code. To give suggestions on things to refactor.

What other use cases are there for this?
What cool things could be done with a JIT in GCC and a libjit library?

[pal666]

I suppose this can be integrated with a IDE to provide things like real-time validation of code as you code. To give suggestions on things to refactor.

you don't need compiler for this, parser is sufficient

[gufide]

you don't need compiler for this, parser is sufficient

a compiler is better, kdevelop will strip off 50K loc by changing from a parser made from scratch to clang. The clang works better and support C and objective C in addition of C++ and has a better type deduction when using templates.

[pal666]

a compiler is better, kdevelop will strip off 50K loc by changing from a parser made from scratch to clang. The clang works better and support C and objective C in addition of C++ and has a better type deduction when using templates.

no, compiler is not needed. kdevelop changed handmade parser to clang parser. see, no compiler here

[artivision]

I would like to see an AAA MMORPG to be compiled with JIT instead of x86 and able to run everywhere.

[pal666]

I would like to see an AAA MMORPG to be compiled with JIT instead of x86 and able to run everywhere.

jit is not for running everywhere. it will not run on more platforms than aot