[Pharo-dev] AsmJit refactoring

> I started to work on a basic ARM model for AsmJit with Damien Pollet and on the fly we continue the refactoring I started last week:
>
> - no more PoolDictionaries
> - no more global registers
> - reducing the number of class variables
> - more specific register classes for x86 to avoid nasty bit masking/checking operations on an integer
>
> All in all this makes the code much more accessible and you can be sure that changing a register (aka renaming it) is a local cation.
>
> What do you think?
>
>

> Le 15/05/2013 14:37, Camillo Bruni a écrit :
>> I started to work on a basic ARM model for AsmJit with Damien Pollet and on the fly we continue the refactoring I started last week:
>>
>> - no more PoolDictionaries
>> - no more global registers
>> - reducing the number of class variables
>> - more specific register classes for x86 to avoid nasty bit masking/checking operations on an integer
>>
>> All in all this makes the code much more accessible and you can be sure that changing a register (aka renaming it) is a local cation.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
> Really? For ARM? This is great :)

>
> On 2013-05-15, at 14:58, Goubier Thierry <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Le 15/05/2013 14:37, Camillo Bruni a écrit :
>>> I started to work on a basic ARM model for AsmJit with Damien Pollet and on the fly we continue the refactoring I started last week:
>>>
>>> - no more PoolDictionaries
>>> - no more global registers
>>> - reducing the number of class variables
>>> - more specific register classes for x86 to avoid nasty bit masking/checking operations on an integer
>>>
>>> All in all this makes the code much more accessible and you can be sure that changing a register (aka renaming it) is a local cation.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>> Really? For ARM? This is great :)
>
>
> don't get too excited :P (we, or at least I am just about to learn the arm specs...)

> I started to work on a basic ARM model for AsmJit with Damien Pollet and on the fly we continue the refactoring I started last week:
>
> - no more PoolDictionaries
> - no more global registers
> - reducing the number of class variables
> - more specific register classes for x86 to avoid nasty bit masking/checking operations on an integer
>
> All in all this makes the code much more accessible and you can be sure that changing a register (aka renaming it) is a local cation.
>
> What do you think?