Closed martinmcclure closed 11 years ago
AsmJit is now the assembler for Mist. Its API is a bit awkward for our purposes, but it is smarter about using shorter versions of instructions than the Mist assembler was, and can handle far more instructions overall.
At Smalltalks, Igor suggested that I use AsmJit for the Mist assembler -- "We don't need two x86_64 assemblers written in Smalltalk". It does look like AsmJit (currently on SqueakSource) is more complete than the Mist assembler.
So: Look into it, see whether its architecture is reasonably compatible, and use it if so.