Document the experimental Redline native compiler - #166
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| It is a substitute for the [Build Time Compiler](../execution/build-time-compiler.md) only, not for | ||
| the interpreter or the [Runtime Compiler](../execution/runtime-compiler.md), and it is enabled on | ||
| the same Maven plugin. The bytecode is still generated, and is used whenever native code cannot be. |
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and is used at runtime when the architecture/os is not supported
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| ## Feature support | ||
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| Redline supports: |
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do a table not two lists, with green and red checkmarks
| If your module uses anything from the second list the build fails. There is no per function | ||
| fallback, so a single unsupported instruction stops the whole module from compiling. | ||
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| Every other execution mode supports all of the above, with the exception of SIMD, |
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| **Jar size.** Native code is considerably larger than the Wasm it comes from, and by default one |
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remove "considerably"
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Doing documentation, found a little drift in the API surface that I want to fix, and a couple of minor things too.