Re: rtl at els

[Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com>]

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I actually did that and have a stalled branch of it in my computer. On the
other hand it's only a nice hack and I recomend that you do it in your own
great way. I will try to follow your progress and perhaps add som coments
along the way.

Have fun
Stefan
On 8 Jun 2013 14:12, "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Ludo and I had a fun time at the European Lisp Symposium last week,
> meeting other lispers, schemers, and a rogue racketeer.  We also managed
> to spend some time going through the pending patches, as you probably
> saw, and I'll be landing them as I fix up docstrings ;)
>
> We also talked about the way forward to target RTL from Scheme.  While
> we both think that Noah's CPS work is the way to go, we're a little
> concerned that to try to land the new VM and the new compiler at the
> same time is too much uncertainty.  So as a stopgap, we're going to try
> to compile Tree-IL directly to RTL.  We'll run a pass over the tree-il
> that converts it to ANF, then adapt the existing tree-il->glil compiler
> to target RTL.  I know that compiler pretty well so I should be able to
> make some good progress there fairly quickly.
>
> So that's the plan.  It will probably make the CPS work easier,
> actually, as there will be example RTL code and we'll be sure the VM is
> capable enough, and we don't have to also worry about the VM
> switchover.  But we'll see :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
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