From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Hartwig Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile Lua Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:12:58 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87d2zc6vla.fsf@googlemail.com> <1353292230.5256.23.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <87k3thxgtb.fsf@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353391990 18105 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2012 06:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:13:10 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 07:13:17 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 1Tah59-0003Ab-9N for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:13:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tah4y-0000h9-Ga for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tah4v-0000gX-C0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:13:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tah4t-0001J7-P4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:13:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:42122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tah4t-0001Ix-J0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hq12so1803762wib.0 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:12:58 -0800 (PST) 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 :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zejO2MeH4zQBjaUdy00Sz1W6zwSbYJvII74Gbuoi3JU=; b=prQ8Nck/VF9o4tTMf1KJgAvSpbVULB0M7HWtCKpjA8k3/qymxXSAyAPqLMwcGmhpX7 6U5R/lVLuSToTBeBTRsIoZLGTz/yaHBoXCo16GZuSAt2GtfDRNYiK25PIMzsIBsConFo nB0BeUCX0aXrNDpW1P4OP/uTw+h54vZ2FfdjOaldowtgiu3tEQy2cHqSuErUyd2/boLf N1b2keGR4qr3JPWvEo6Mk79xNtD+U0RCSVtJYJW5AUdpm55hLoc8SLk/w3/qm4QxVBjG X6OCpXffncpFY9JZ/D60nZ/UjkdbmjXZH5EHGd/X7N7nObfg3JtPdFEyxEmV6Msv4EAp NkyQ== Original-Received: by 10.216.218.77 with SMTP id j55mr2265938wep.37.1353391978215; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:12:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.217.53.133 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:12:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87k3thxgtb.fsf@googlemail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.169 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:15214 Archived-At: On 20 November 2012 08:24, Ian Price wrote: > I'm no expert on lua, so I can't give you a huge long list, but Phil did > make a post titled "Creating a Lua Roadmap" at > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/12291 > > The first issues would be them. There appears to be a notes.org in the > modules/language/lua directory, so compare with that, but I expect the > roadmap covered that. Then it would be a matter of working through the > lua manual, and seeing what else is missing. Add to these lists that (language lua) does not implement the table=E2=80=93array optimization [1]. This would be an interesting early t= ask for someone as the algorithm is relatively simple. Without it the performance of =E2=80=9Carrays=E2=80=9D will be poor. [1]