From: rixed@happyleptic.org
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Why 3 different evaluators?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116050005.GA19554@happyleptic.org> (raw)
According to the doc, guile currently maintain 3 evaluators:
- the new VM
- an evaluator written in scheme
- the old C evaluator, used for bootstrapping the compiler.
That's a lot of code just to bootstrap the compiler. Why not bootstrapping the
compiler from either previous installed guile or (as fall-back) some provided
.go bytecode instead? Wouldn't that make guile code significantly simpler to
maintain and faster to compile?
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-16 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 5:00 rixed [this message]
2011-11-16 9:31 ` Why 3 different evaluators? Andy Wingo
2011-11-16 10:17 ` rixed
2011-11-16 18:48 ` Andy Wingo
2011-11-16 19:05 ` rixed
2011-11-16 19:43 ` Mike Gran
2011-11-17 5:29 ` rixed
2012-01-09 22:16 ` Andy Wingo
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