Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

[Geoffrey Broadwell]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 10:05 -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> We do need to keep the JIT-based NCI call frame generator, but I would
> suggest that even this mechanism is not ideal and should be replaced
> eventually too. That portion of the JIT system is specifically omitted
> from this deprecation suggestion.

Unfortunately, it is also broken.  OpenGL examples produce blank black
windows on i386 with JIT turned on, when they work fine otherwise.  As
for as I know no one has managed to figure out why, but there it is.


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