Re: [Lightning] RFC: Proposal for lightning 2.0

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 26/11/2012 21:33, Ludovic Courtès ha scritto:
>> >   It needs to be a library mostly due to the IR, with real functions 
>> > instead
>> > of all in preprocessor macros, it is easier to write more readable code,
>> > as well as only export what really is supposed to be visible.
> I see.  That’s a noticeable change in spirit.
> 
> It’s probably worth checking what its main “customers” would think,
> particularly GNU Smalltalk and Racket.
> 

It's not a problem for me.

However, another thing I would investigate would be to reuse QEMU's Tiny
Code Generator as a library.  It supports many backends, and has a
decent API that is not far from lightning's.

Paolo