Re: summer of code ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been toying with the idea of an AOT compiler for Guile, and I
> think that would make a good summer project.

Really?  I thought you were toying with JIT.  :-)

> I think you'd want to compile from Tree-IL to GCC's GIMPLE format (the
> highest-level intermediate representation they have, I think).

Actually, I suspect there would be a lot of technical problems to solve,
notably because GCC is not a library and because passing it such complex
data structures may be far from trivial (see MELT).

Besides, for AOT, I was beguiled by Andy’s initial plan of using
exclusively Scheme tools such as Sassy.

Thanks,
Ludo’.