From: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: 24363@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24363: Acknowledgement (Clarify the VM docs)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:23:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFXAjY7XMU9n-SQp8U6GDm-4ynwAhTtdc8iPsVC+_ZPG6q0OrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1kjzlog.fsf@pobox.com>
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Patch attached.
I'd like to sort copyright papers too, let me know what's necessary.
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From: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:14:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify bootstrap docs
* doc/ref/vm.texi: Add a sentence stating which parts of the bytecode
toolchain are in C, and which are in Scheme. This avoids confusion if
users assume Guile==Scheme and so assume the whole toolchain is in
Scheme.
---
doc/ref/vm.texi | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ref/vm.texi b/doc/ref/vm.texi
index 2f32c51..9766ccb 100644
--- a/doc/ref/vm.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/vm.texi
@@ -62,10 +62,12 @@ The obvious solution is to compile to a virtual machine that is
present on all Guile installations.
The easiest (and most fun) way to depend on a virtual machine is to
-implement the virtual machine within Guile itself. This way the
-virtual machine provides what Scheme needs (tail calls, multiple
-values, @code{call/cc}) and can provide optimized inline instructions
-for Guile (@code{cons}, @code{struct-ref}, etc.).
+implement the virtual machine within Guile itself. Guile contains a
+bytecode interpreter (written in C) and a Scheme to bytecode compiler
+(written in Scheme). This way the virtual machine provides what Scheme
+needs (tail calls, multiple values, @code{call/cc}) and can provide
+optimized inline instructions for Guile (@code{cons}, @code{struct-ref},
+etc.).
So this is what Guile does. The rest of this section describes that VM
that Guile implements, and the compiled procedures that run on it.
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2.9.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 5:04 bug#24363: Clarify the VM docs Wilfred Hughes
[not found] ` <handler.24363.B.147296552715192.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-09-04 5:08 ` bug#24363: Acknowledgement (Clarify the VM docs) Wilfred Hughes
2016-09-04 16:14 ` Andy Wingo
2016-09-05 0:23 ` Wilfred Hughes [this message]
2016-09-05 18:52 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-01 9:07 ` Andy Wingo
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