[issue4753] Faster opcode dispatch on gcc
Skip Montanaro
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Wed Jan 7 16:09:28 CET 2009
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> added the comment:
Paolo> Various techniques allow to create binary code from the
Paolo> interpreter binary, by just pasting together the code for the
Paolo> common interpreters cases and producing calls to the other. But,
Paolo> guess what, on most platforms (except plain x86, but including
Paolo> x86_64 and maybe x86 for the shared library case) this does not
Paolo> work if the copied code includes function calls (on x86_64 that's
Paolo> due to RIP-relative addressing, and on similar issues on other
Paolo> platforms).
I don't understand. I know little or nothing about the details of various
instruction set architectures or linkage methods. Can you break it down
into a simple example?
Skip
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