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Is blink an interpreter for x86_64 instructions, or does it compile basic blocks to the host architecture? I had a look at the source code but I'm not sure how

by osa1 11mo ago

Is blink an interpreter for x86_64 instructions, or does it compile basic blocks to the host architecture? I had a look at the source code but I'm not sure how it works. It looks a bit too small (50 kloc C + 6.6 kloc headers) to have code generators for all of the supported host architectures.

halb 11mo ago
It's an interpreter, but it does support JIT to x64 and arm. There are some details here: https://github.com/jart/blink/?tab=readme-ov-file#technical-details https://github.com/jart/blink/?tab=readme-ov-file#technical-... On the x64-playground website it's just running as an interpreter, inside of web assembly