Re: guile-vm 0.3

[Evan Prodromou]

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>>>>> "MV" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

    MV> I'm still thinking about where the right point is to interface
    MV> with a VM.  Do we (ultimately) want a system that has either a
    MV> native compiler or a VM?  Or a system that always has a VM,
    MV> and on some platforms also a native compiler?

Ding ding ding.

This seems to be the Right Thing: compile to VM code, and then
JIT-compile to Lightning if possible. In pseudo,

        byte_code = byte_code_compile(raw_code);

        #ifdef __HAVE_LIGHTNING__

        mixed_native_and_byte_code = jit_compile(byte_code);
        result = jit_run(mixed_native_and_byte_code);

        #else

        result = byte_code_run(byte_code);

        #endif

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Evan Prodromou
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