Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

Re:Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture ... by muizelaar on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:41PM (#18302782)

V8 wasn't originally based on llvm. If anything, it was based on Strongtalk. https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/43d26ecc3563a46f62a022403066...

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Re:Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture ... by monocasa on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:47PM (#18302852)

Oh, my bad, misremembered.

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Re:Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture ... by munificent on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:35PM (#18303884)

You may be thinking of Rubinius?

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Re:Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture ... by monocasa on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:15AM (#18307136)

Nah, I was thinking of JavaScriptCore. They replaced their last tier JIT a few years back; it used to be LLVM, but now it's a custom backend "B3".

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