Re: [Lightning] [Fwd: Re: lightning for x86-64???]

[Eli Barzilay]

On Oct 26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> > I *hope* I can do the testing -- the thing is that (as you have
> > probably seen) Matthew took a few parts and used them directly.  So I
> > might get stuck and ask him for help.  Also, the testing will be in
> > the form of compiling and using mzscheme (which JITs code through
> > lightning).
> >   
> Hopefully, in the end we'll be running lightning's test suite...
> However, I see that the port is incomplete right now.

OK.  Matthew will be able to provide more details.


> In the beginning, we can undoubtedly just test that I didn't break
> mzscheme.
> 
> BTW, is it still true that lightning beats mzc?

Yes -- but I think that this is due to the fact that mzc was not
generating good C code.

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