Question about JIT

[Atheist]

JIT, "Just In Time", the conversion of instructions from 680x0 instructions to a combination of PPC RISC instrutions that achieve the same thing in the CPU.

Can this be done, a 680x0 program, be run through a RISC JIT, and then that combination of commands be saved back to disk as a new file. Then just run that "RISCed" program, from then on? Could this be done to a BASIC program?

On one end its CISC command A, then it gets converted to RISC command B (C, (D)), just save it then to disk and build the new program. It would have to examine the branches as well.

[Atheist]

iamaboringperson wrote:
Are you refering to source code you have?

For instance Power Packer, the source might not be available, so the JIT converts every instruction to PPC then runs it. I thought the JIT could be used to run the program, command by command, but instead of running, it saves the resulting commands into a file. Effectively converting it into a PPC program.


A1!