[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: summer of code ideas
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: summer of code ideas |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:27:04 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110013 (No Gnus v0.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, it's been a while since we talked about that :-). I still want to
> do it, though. The current status as I see it is that I have a
> prototype JIT that works, and a plausible way to integrate it into
> Guile's VM. What needs to happen now is to write all of the opcodes as
> JIT functions (the prototype had five or so opcodes). Since writing
> them by hand would cause an absurd amount of code duplication, I
> wanted to do it automatically.
Yes.
> We talked about having a Scheme-based language that could compile to
> both plain C and JIT, but decided that would make the VM too
> complicated,
Maybe I forgot to feed that thread, but I think it might be easier to
have a high-level representation the VM opcodes as sexps (possibly a
subset of Scheme), and then write the C files from that.
Though the main difficulty is to find a sufficiently expressive way to
write opcodes in.
> I notice that GCC now has the ability to use plugins,
The plug-in API doesn’t allow plug-ins to add new front-ends
(info "(gccint) Plugins").
Thanks,
Ludo’.
CPAN for Guile, Andreas Rottmann, 2011/03/07
Re: summer of code ideas, Noah Lavine, 2011/03/07