Re: guile-vm 0.3

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> I could also ask Siskind for his opinion.  I've spoken with him off an
> on over the past couple of years about various things, including the
> possibility of using Stalin in parallel with other languages in a very
> "hacked" setup just to gain performance.  I'll try and send him a
> message shortly and see if he has any thoughts.

Nice.  (You might even ask him if he would assign the copyright to
Stalin to the FSF, ahem.)

> > I kinda like the dual approach: a VM is useful even when we have a
> > native compiler (for debugging and compactness), and when we fuse
> > the two on such a low level, there should be little problem with
> > maintaining them.
> 
> This sounds pretty good, though I wonder if applying lightning after
> moving to the byte code stage might mean losing information that would
> allow jit optimizations that wouldn't make sense for the VM.

I'm not so much thinking about "Scheme -> VM -> native", more about

                                      -> native
    Scheme --> some low level stuff -|
                                      -> VM