How to write a simple JIT compiler

Re:How to write a simple JIT compiler by Rendello on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:28PM (#29569742)

Terry Davis, of TempleOS fame, did a video about writing a mini JIT compiler in TempleOS using HolyC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVYXplrRkQ

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Re:How to write a simple JIT compiler by no_time on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:33PM (#29569825)

I wish I had a space alien or God himself teach me low level computer architecture.

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Re:How to write a simple JIT compiler by Rendello on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:45PM (#29570020)

Terry Davis learned in university and on the job before the schizophrenia 'kicked in'. How he was able to focus enough to write so much solid code after the illness started, I'll never know.

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Re:How to write a simple JIT compiler by hutzlibu on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:16PM (#29571738)

It is also possible, that the illness gave him the fanatism required to maintain the focus over the years, to come so far with TempleOS. (That same fanatism and crazieness also prevented people from participating I guess.)

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Re:How to write a simple JIT compiler by Rendello on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:55PM (#29572094)

I bet it was less about fanaticism and more about time. Previously, he had worked full time and made money. He wasn't able to work after the illness (I think I read somewhere that he was rehired by his old company, but only lasted a few weeks).

TempleOS wasn't the first thing he worked on after becoming ill, he'd previously been working on a three-axis milling machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis#Onset_of_illnes...

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