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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: rixed@happyleptic.org
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why 3 different evaluators?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:48:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3crlx7p.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111116101708.GA18426@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan> (rixed@happyleptic.org's message of "Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:17:08 +0100")

On Wed 16 Nov 2011 11:17, rixed@happyleptic.org writes:

>> If I bootstrap Guile-X from GCC, I have to trust GCC.
>
> And the code for this C evaluator that's almost used nowhere thus
> probably much less tested than the rest of Guile.

On the contrary, it is used to interpret the entire compiler, when
compiling eval.go.  It runs on every system that builds Guile.  Also it
is very simple, and uses the same algorithm as eval.scm.

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  5:00 Why 3 different evaluators? rixed
2011-11-16  9:31 ` Andy Wingo
2011-11-16 10:17   ` rixed
2011-11-16 18:48     ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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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