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diff --git a/devel/libjit/DESCR b/devel/libjit/DESCR index affef060662..39c94e78759 100644 --- a/devel/libjit/DESCR +++ b/devel/libjit/DESCR @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -The libjit library implements Just-In-Time compilation functionality. Unlike -other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent of any particular virtual -machine bytecode format or language. The hope is that Free Software projects -can get a leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using this library rather than +The libjit library implements Just-In-Time compilation functionality. Unlike +other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent of any particular virtual +machine bytecode format or language. The hope is that Free Software projects +can get a leg-up on proprietry VM vendors by using this library rather than spending large amounts of time writing their own JIT from scratch. -This JIT is also designed to be portable to multiple archictures. If you run -libjit on a machine for which a native code generator is not yet available, -then libjit will fall back to interpreting the code. This way, you don't need +This JIT is also designed to be portable to multiple archictures. If you run +libjit on a machine for which a native code generator is not yet available, +then libjit will fall back to interpreting the code. This way, you don't need to write your own interpreter for your bytecode format if you don't want to. |