[Guile-commits] 01/02: Reference Lightening instead of GNU Lightning

[Andy Wingo]

wingo pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.

commit 6880ced4c24e76c713061de80619353153a0a537
Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu May 23 21:00:20 2019 +0200

    Reference Lightening instead of GNU Lightning
    
    * doc/ref/vm.texi (Just-In-Time Native Code): Update with link to
      Lightening.
---
 doc/ref/vm.texi | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/vm.texi b/doc/ref/vm.texi
index d118470..5a0b5a7 100644
--- a/doc/ref/vm.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/vm.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
address@hidden Copyright (C)  2008-2011, 2013, 2015, 2018
address@hidden Copyright (C)  2008-2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019
 @c   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
 
@@ -1910,11 +1910,14 @@ breakpoint, Guile will disable the JIT for the thread 
being debugged,
 falling back to the interpreter (which has the corresponding code to run
 the hooks).  @xref{VM Hooks}.
 
-Guile uses the GNU Lightning library to emit native code.  This allows
-Guile's template JIT supports practically all architectures, from
-Itanium to MIPS.  You can optimize a program on your x86-64 desktop and
-you can know that the corresponding program on an AArch64 phone will
-also get faster.
+To emit native code, Guile uses a forked version of GNU Lightning.This
+"Lightening" effort, spun out as a separate project, aims to build on
+the back-end support from GNU Lightning, but adapting the API and
+behavior of the library to match Guile's needs.  This code is included
+in the Guile source distribution.  For more information, see
address@hidden://gitlab.com/wingo/lightening}.  As of mid-2019, Lightening
+supports code generation for the x86-64, ia32, ARMv7, and AArch64
+architectures.
 
 The weaknesses of a template JIT are two-fold.  Firstly, as a simple
 back-end that has to run fast, a template JIT doesn't have time to do