Use JNI to speed up performance of interfacing with simulators

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Use JNI to speed up performance of interfacing with simulators

edwardcwang opened this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

Answer 1 · 2019-04-19T20:34:14.000Z

Answer 2 · 2021-08-17T23:03:12.000Z

We are using JNA now with Verilator. With JNI the problem is that it is tricky to load more than one simulation at a time into the JVM. There could be a way to further speed things up by essentially implementing our own JNA-lite. If anyone is interested in taking that on, please talk to me.