From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christopher Allan Webber Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Experimental JIT for Guile (???!) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:30:06 -0500 Message-ID: <87bmz91c9t.fsf@dustycloud.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474997461 4761 195.159.176.226 (27 Sep 2016 17:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:31:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.1 To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 27 19:30:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bowDO-0007F3-LO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bowDH-0003Lo-T5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bowD3-0003Le-1i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bowCy-0005rx-4D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:45504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bowCy-0005nc-1P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C89AD2670C for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:30:07 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.116.34.160 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18687 Archived-At: 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