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From: "Robby Findler" <robby@cs.uchicago.edu>
To: JonWilson <jsw@wilsonjc.us>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: phase separation -- was Re: set-pair!
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:12:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <932b2f1f0809110812o29cf162p3d33356ac3276920@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C93495.3050505@wilsonjc.us>

You might try reading this paper:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf

Robby

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM, JonWilson <jsw@wilsonjc.us> wrote:
> Hi Clinton,
>
> Clinton Ebadi wrote:
>> runtime modification of
>> lexical environments is incompatible with a properly phase-separated
>> compiler).
>
> I hear a lot of mention of phase separation, usually as something
> desirable.  However, I've never seen a thorough explanation of why phase
> separation is particularly good thing.  (Nor a thorough explanation of
> exactly what it is, and google hasn't turned up anything useful so far.)
>  Would you mind giving me some pointers to reading material (or, if
> you've got nothing which is actually important to do, writing up an
> explanation yourself)?
> Regards,
> Jon
>
>
>
>




      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-20  7:27 set-pair! Maciek Godek
2008-08-20 16:34 ` set-pair! Clinton Ebadi
2008-09-11 15:09   ` phase separation -- was set-pair! JonWilson
2008-09-11 15:12     ` Robby Findler [this message]

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