Re: Experimental JIT for Guile (???!)

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

Well, there's interesting story behind it.
Few days ago this new JIT backend named Nash was introduced in ICFP2016 (scheme
workshop), I and Ludo are lecturers too. When I first saw the topic, I looked
back to Ludo and thought "oh you guys are making a new weapon secretly huh?"
I thought this work must be encouraged and helped by Ludo or Wingo or Mark, but
finally I realized that I was wrong, the author Atsuro Hoshino was hacking JIT
backend for Guile all by himself. Ludo got surprised too.
I have to say, lone hero pattern is not recommended for a community project, but
anyway he did it bravely and the result seems good according to the paper.
After the meeting, I and Ludo tried to convince him to get involved into our
community to get more help and feedback. 

I CC him here, and it depends on him whether/when to introduce more.

I think this project is just amazing, really! Thank you Hoshino! ;-)

Best regards.

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 12:30 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Earlier today, David Thompson pointed to this paper in #guix on
> freenode:
> 
>   https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit-documentation/raw/master/nash.pdf
> 
> And here seems to be the source:
> 
>   https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit
> 
> I'm not informed enough to judge this myself, but this seems like a
> reasonable start-of-implementation of the ideas expressed here:
> 
>   http://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/03/two-paths-one-peak-a-view-from-below
> -on-high-performance-language-implementations
> 
> It mentions hot loops and compiling to native code... that's about as
> much as I can tell myself about it being on track.  But it seems pretty
> cool, especially for something shooting onto the radar seemingly out of
> nowhere!
> 
> Anyone more informed have thoughts? :)
>  - Chris
>