JIT for E-UAE bounty (continued discussion).

Regarding the JIT for E-UAE bounty does anyone have anything to add to the bounty description found here:
http://amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=35

Any special requirements to test a finished result of the bounty.

@Troels

I don't not understand what Sharing the Clipboard has to do with JIT ?.

RWO

@rwo

It's unrelated to JIT, but it's a useful feature to have, if you want to copy something from e-uae's workbench for example, and then paste it into os4's workbench.

I have a shared clipboard between PC and OS4. It's very convenient. It's like having one computer with two screens. :)

@jahc

Yes but that is just an update to E-UAE... but clearly the Topic is only writting a JIT.

I think the bounty has to be split.

RWO

@Troels

These things should not be in the bounty, writing a JIT compiler is a hard task as it is, lets not change focus to unreleased things.

So please remove:

- Sharing the clipboard between the emulation and the host.
- Preferably use shared objects (especially for SDL).

@Troels

I agree with rwo and LiveForIt.

The clipboard sharing, while it could be nice, is nowhere near as necessary as a 68k -> PPC JIT for E-UAE and doesn't really belong in this bounty IMO. IMHO it would be silly to refuse to pay money to a developer who has implemented 68k -> PPC JIT only because he hasn't implemented this one irrelevant feature.

As for using shared objects, that should only be a matter of adding -use-dynld to the commandline for linking the program so it doesn't really have to be part of the bounty either.

@all
Thanks for your input.
First JIT only bounty, then improvements to E-UAE bounty.

@Troels
The phrasing of "Bring JIT 68k code emulation to the OS4 version of E-UAE. " may prevent inventive coders from using OS4's native 68k JIT ability. If Shapeshifter can use the 68k processor of underlying OS, then maybe UAE could too...

@Troels

Sorry if I didn't get back to you before. Damn days of 24 hours

Some people suggested that lack of JIT was not the only problem of speed in E-UAE. Emulating the chipset is an area that needs more work.

So maybe the bounty should be changed to "make it faster", but how to put words on this?

@Elwood

Yes you have right there are a lot of aspects that need attention from the developers but JIT is important IMHO, so i would not change the name of the bounty