From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noah Lavine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Register VM WIP Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871umqr8q0.fsf@pobox.com> <873972zczy.fsf@gnu.org> <87bolpmgew.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337128751 1247 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2012 00:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 02:39:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SUSGj-0000Tn-Pc for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 02:39:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUSGj-0002g5-6b for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUSGg-0002g0-DG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUSGe-0000NR-P3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:49550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUSGe-0000NH-Ii; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so240858ggm.0 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 17:39:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=q1UNXiDyNdcZJQmpA+9jJ2V4x1PLx8N7/iNllGizqb4=; b=KIhD3Qfx3bL3p4SLgwYdkkIi1/nL2Hbjwh2ihPw0J9y2fUxTXJHBgnnN98lNIerdL7 hK2m9qYqGlz71VdMIYhTGJ1Ir+8hSrMF2cREBA03qZmUcCTex5PWHmdeVWcKzRjaMovb z6YnPaOGb7s90Uc9x4xMtXAvebS3nYGqC7DtW8+hPU3oY1v+YihHJrHMMEGTYVWz2Bn7 PN5XiQKpAbNkHL20VVJ0Av6PGog4cCiOEY5K8usMek4SVlPYQal6otoRjf36+tyBn1cT 9fr5wZJMeaBA8OvEfnEPKEaK6YPBtjSdCTR73A5mTvbngEs93FNnwfJPHDEVhzkcntjQ aurw== Original-Received: by 10.50.180.137 with SMTP id do9mr497320igc.71.1337128742134; Tue, 15 May 2012 17:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.42.29.200 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2012 17:39:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bolpmgew.fsf@pobox.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: _0_5OArBnz3XrYVM3JMhhbTGBiM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14458 Archived-At: Hello, >> The register based VMs I've seen ignore this issue by allowing for an >> infinite set of registers. :) > > Indeed, that's the plan :) =A0The first shot at an allocator will look a > lot like the one in (language tree-il analyze). That was a bit surprising to me. Do you mean that the register pool will grow and shrink for each function call? Is that why the stack frames can be fixed-size? Thanks, Noah