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’.
next prev parent 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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