Posted in Uncategorized on November 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
On i386, Nanojit has two basic modes of operation: SSE, and non-SSE. Non-SSE is for old machines that don’t support SSE instructions. (It might actually be SSE2 instructions, I’m not sure.) My two machines both support SSE and so the non-SSE is never exercised unless I specify the environment variable X86_FORCE_SSE=no. Since this invocation doesn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
With the Valgrind-on-Mac support coming along nicely, it’s worth addressing another widely-used platform: Windows. Will Valgrind work on Windows any time soon? There are actually two answers: (a) hell no, and (b) it already does (sort of).
The patch I merged from the Darwin branch onto the trunk yesterday was 28,300 lines. And that was almost [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
You gotta start somewhere.
Update (Jan 19): Hmm, I wasn’t expecting this post to make it onto Planet Mozilla, as I wrote it two days before I requested that my blog be syndicated. Well, at least it didn’t take you long to read