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PyPy JIT[backend]
modified Mar 18, 2008 by Armin Rigo

JIT Backends

The JIT compilers that we generate are linked with one of our backends, which are written by hand in RPython. We currently have a backend for producing IA32/i386 machine code in memory, PowerPC machine code in memory, or (for testing) further low-level control flow graphs. There were some experiments with a backend using the LLVM JIT. Current work includes a backend that produces CLI bytecode.

The Backend interface

The interface (which is not yet completely stable) is documented in pypy/jit/codegen/model.py.