[yapc] Lightning Talk Request -- JIT

[Luke Palmer]

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 ioannis at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > If it is not too late, and others can second my motion, I request the favor of
> > initiation to JIT.
> 
> A Perl JIT sounds pretty interesting. The Valgrind package has some pretty
> interesting JIT code in it. There is also a Java JIT project
> (ElectricalFire) on mozilla.org. But a Perl JIT would be pretty nice for
> certain scenarios. In particular, mod_perl enabled websites would get an
> even further performance boost.

You must not be following Parrot (the Perl 6 VM), which is what I
think the message was referring to.  Parrot has a working JIT (ghod it
is sooo fast), and would make a nice case study for a Lightning Talk.
If only I knew anything about it... :-)

Luke