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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiler Branch
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:49:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5t2rte2.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+U71=OLUU+w8eOMaJdWByBWa9U3wtLKvOO0ngWAySJ-3bjQrg@mail.gmail.com> (Noah Lavine's message of "Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:15:47 -0500")

Heya Noah,

A brief note:

On Sun 08 Jan 2012 22:15, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:

> I do think there's a problem with plain CPS, though - it forces you to
> pick an order for the evaluation of function arguments. I would like
> to use CPS with some sort of parallel-call operator, so we can leave
> the order undefined (maybe at some point an optimizer will want to
> adjust the order). What do you think?
>
> I also noticed that at the end of that blog post you said you were
> considering ANF versus CPS for Guile (I assume you'd already decided
> that you didn't like Tree-IL). Does this mean you decided on CPS?

I guess I'd like to see if it's a good idea or not.  We definitely do
need a parallel binding operator.  I haven't already decided on it but I
am interested.

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-20 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-13  4:39 Compiler Branch Noah Lavine
2011-12-13  8:47 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 13:52   ` Noah Lavine
2012-01-07  1:00     ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-08  0:42       ` Noah Lavine
2012-01-08 14:53         ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-08 21:15           ` Noah Lavine
2012-01-20 20:49             ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-12-18 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès

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