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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lightning Bindings
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87typmd4eb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTil7gJEB_Z-EKNepRzvDRIvTe9ppUv5UBzJyAih6@mail.gmail.com

Hello,

Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:

> I didn't realize GCC had a Lisp interface. Interfacing with GCC would
> be excellent.

MELT is a “middle end”, useful when writing optimization passes, but not
when writing a front-end.

> This is perhaps far-fetched, but I think the best thing would be if we
> could persuade them to replace MELT with Guile. It looks to me from
> the docs like MELT is yet another Lisp engine, which is exactly what
> Guile is trying to replace. We could offer them a well-tested,
> more-feature-complete extension language, and they could offer us
> interfaces to good code generation.

I don’t think that’d work because MELT is very tightly integrated with
GCC’s internals AIUI.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27 21:03 Lightning Bindings Noah Lavine
2010-05-28 20:49 ` No Itisnt
2010-05-28 21:38   ` Noah Lavine
2010-05-29 20:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-06-01 14:57   ` Noah Lavine
2010-06-01 17:55     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-06-02 20:47     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-05-29 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-01  9:06 ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-01 14:55   ` Noah Lavine
2010-06-01 19:24     ` Andy Wingo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-31 22:49 Noah Lavine
2010-06-01  9:15 ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-01 18:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-01 20:42 Noah Lavine

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