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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swt...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pico
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:36:19 -0500

> Byron Rakitzis (of posix rc fame) produced a version popi with the JIT
> compiler, though sadly his where for cpus which are common cpus these days.

Computers and compilers are fast enough now
that you can get away with just feeding code
into a C compiler instead of writing a full JIT.
And there's no porting to do!

I just put a pico on sources that does this - 738 lines,
not many of which are the "JIT".

9fs sources
cd /n/sources/contrib/rsc/pico
mk demo

Russ