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From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lightning Bindings
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:57:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil7gJEB_Z-EKNepRzvDRIvTe9ppUv5UBzJyAih6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpbya2r3.fsf@ambire.localdomain>

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

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.

Noah

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:
> () Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
> () Thu, 27 May 2010 17:03:48 -0400
>
>      - Second, what would a good interface to a native code
>   generation system be?  (I'm assuming we'll want Lightning
>   available as a regular module in addition to using it to speed
>   up the language.)  My current prototype just mimics the
>   Lightning API, but it's not necessarily the best way to do
>   this. Is there a better way?
>
> Perhaps you can look at how MELT (for GCC) does things.  Keeping
> within striking distance of GCC interop (i.e., its plugin design)
> is probably a lot of work, but maybe the benefit would be greater.
>
> thi
>



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 14:57 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 [this message]
2010-06-01 17:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
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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