From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gwozdziewycz Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Register VM WIP Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871umqr8q0.fsf@pobox.com> <873972zczy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337030900 22240 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 21:28:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 23:28:19 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 1SU2oT-00047z-7p for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 23:28:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU2oS-0004SY-LV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU2oP-0004Rb-HI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU2oN-0002CS-RV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:34288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU2oN-0002CM-Kk; Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: by vbbey12 with SMTP id ey12so6789041vbb.0 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ryg6PDDUQtVMzj2YstwD4jZi7L5dfe+1+cn/BiD84M8=; b=srdK4Xz3foHFNBqJWjtlRWnmSL5rU7B8ZtR1sB1+m+WHGSUxfIpxmOqO7NJ4LaHycS gf+w1PfdE1X1Oep2ALQ3/VSE/7caSs7Jui/8HdJbK6tECP1fEmBxUYsceJfmAzAzZWd/ Kb+T17v4COypOYf+dDPSxVCJykWa3E4SHd8a8aSMjZFnpLjeS5zioPekGX0mINLylJCp jCY/e4h7PkL+cjxbvnW8z2OZQHLYDsVaEWfSDUOvlPFgWRD6InGVEsiU4iJPlnhRlWYU 7mYMZ0pbA0khrMITJFAKHtMvaaYked91TK21ufPZmsVqHv4cnXyrzABHVOnP3Y7qCbnZ CYPg== Original-Received: by 10.220.155.197 with SMTP id t5mr968704vcw.6.1337030888607; Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.155.2 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873972zczy.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 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:14427 Archived-At: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Hi Andy! > > This all looks pretty exciting! =C2=A0Being able to get rid of all repeat= ed > =E2=80=98local-{ref,set}=E2=80=99 instructions sounds compelling. =C2=A0A= nd it does seem to > bring us one step closer to native code. > > Presumably the tricky part will be the register allocator, right? The register based VMs I've seen ignore this issue by allowing for an infinite set of registers. :) --=20 http://www.apgwoz.com