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What do you do if you have some sort of user-defined expressions that
you need to evaluate? Let's assume you have some way of parsing that
text into a meaningful data structure, such as an abstract syntax tree
(AST). The obvious answer is to write some code that traverses your
AST and acts as an interpreter to produce the results.
Iterated Dynamics has a "formula" fractal type that allows you to
write your own little formula for iterating points in the complex
plane in order to define your typical "escape time" fractal.
Currently, the code uses an interpreter approach as described above.
However, this interpreted formula is in the inner loop of the image computation. The original MS-DOS FRACTINT code had a just-in-time
(JIT) code generator for the 8087/80287/80387 math coprocessor that
would compute the formula described by the user's input. Because this
code was executing natively on the hardware, it outperformed any
interpreter.
This month, Richard Thomson will give us an overview of the
AsmJit/AsmTk libraries for generating in-memory machine instructions
that we can call from C++. We'll look at how AsmJit exposes the
assembly and linking process and the tools that it provides beyond the
basic process of storing machine code into memory.
AsmJit/AsmTk: <
https://asmjit.com/>
This will be an online meeting, so drinks and snacks are on you!
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