pfalcon/pycopy-jitgen

Generating machine code at runtime (aka JIT) using Pycopy (small Python dialect)

jitgen

jitgen is a (very bare) demo of generating machine code at runtime using Pycopy (https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy) and executing it.

Current, only x86 (32-bit) is supported. While demo is very bare (and set of supported instructions is very limited), it tries to show something more interesting than "a + b", namely, being able to do something about Python objects. For this, the code generated calls back into Pycopy for various API functions. For that to work, the executable should export symbols for functions using -rdynamic linker flag.

Summing up, to try this demo, build Pycopy's Unix version with:

make MICROPY_FORCE_32BIT=1 LDFLAGS_EXTRA=-rdynamic

License

jitgen is written by Paul Sokolovsky and released under the MIT license.