Re: [Tinycc-devel] Using TinyCC with GPL

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

F.B. wrote:
> Yann wrote:
> > thank you for your advice, even if it does not answer my question. My
> > application is coded in C++ so I gues I can try/catch before calling the C
> > script, right ? However, maybe I made a mistake calling this script. My use
> > would better be very fast prototyping or light plugins. It has to run as
> > fast as possible, this is why I consider using tinycc better than any
> > interpreted bytecode.
>
> C and try/catch? Now that's a good one.
> Do yourself a favour and look into Lua, it'll save you some headaches.


I agree with F.B. who suggest Lua. You might also look into Ocaml. Its 
bytecode VM is quite fast!

If your machine is x86 (= i686 = ia32 = 32 bits only, not the 64 bits 
variant = AMD64 = x86-64) then the LuaJit implementation should be even 
faster. And Tinycc does not run for x86-64!


If speed is your main concern, it is somehow antagonistic with scripting 
language. But usually script language are used in performance 
application to drive lower-level, resource consuming, routines.


Again, scripting in a non-safe language is really a nightmare. What is 
your user supposed to do on a core dump?

However, you might consider also:

 * generating C code, compiling it (either with tinycc, or with another 
compiler like gcc, using -fPIC -shared on Linux) and dynamically loading 
it with dlopen(3).

 * using some JIT-ed scripting implementation (LuaJit, Parrotcode, ...)

 * using some machine code generator library, like libjit (use the CVS 
version), LLVM, GNU lightning

 * generating some other langage source code (C++, D, C-- Pascal ...) 
and compiling it and dynamically loading it.

 * restricting yourself to ordinary plugins

 * using some language implementation which dynamically compile to 
machine code: many Lisp-s (e.g SBCL), several Java JVM, next version of 
Ocaml, some Haskells, ..



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