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Re: RTL has landed!
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Nala Ginrut |
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Re: RTL has landed! |
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Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:32:40 +0800 |
On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 14:39 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just a brief note to say that if you haven't noticed, the "master"
> branch of Guile now compiles to the new virtual machine, using the new
> compiler. All tests pass. The old VM is gone!
>
Congrats!
> There are a couple of regressions that I would like to fix soonish:
>
> * The compiler is somewhat slow. I haven't tried to optimize it at
> all, so there's lots to do here. To a degree it is to be expected,
> as the compiler does more work -- but I hope to get it faster than
> the 2.0 compiler.
>
> * We don't have local variable information. In the debugger, ,locals
> doesn't print anything. Here we need to build this information at
> compile-time, write it into ELF somehow (perhaps using DWARF), and
> read it out as needed at runtime. I'll take a look at this too.
>
> * The manual is out of date, as regards the compiler and VM.
>
> Besides these regressions, there are a many optimizations to make --
> many more than before -- now that we have a better intermediate language
> in which to express them.
>
> Let the list know if you find any problems that aren't covered by the
> test suite.
>
> I hope we can get out a 2.1.0 release -- which would be a prerelease for
> 2.2 -- around mid-December or so. We can aim for 2.2.0 for next May or
> so, but that's a totally fictional date I just made up :)
>
Next May sounds nice, but no rush anyway IMO ;-)
Thanks for working on it!
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
- RTL has landed!, Andy Wingo, 2013/11/09
- Re: RTL has landed!,
Nala Ginrut <=