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GNU lightning - Generates assembly language code at run-time

GNU lightning, an unfinished program, will be a library that generates assembly language code at run-time; it is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips.

GNU lightning is not yet complete and is considered to be in alpha stage. Only the x86 back-end has been tested and used in production code.

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Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/lightning.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/lightning/lightning-1.0.tar.gz
Version 1.0 (beta) released on 2002-05-08
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-25
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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