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by mahmud 6241 days ago
Interested parties can also look at how the Tamarin VM implements those bitwise opcodes natively.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

Flash opcodes into Nanojit IR:

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-central/raw-file/4eb9f961a087/...

Nanojit IR to native x86 translation tables?

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-central/raw-file/4eb9f961a087/...

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Nice! That's great to hear, since it's always perplexing when native code ISN'T the fastest... Kind of makes you have to ask, "If there is a better way, why isn't that the native way?" But, for Tamarin, that question will be moot.