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Re: Bug free programs


From: Ian Grant
Subject: Re: Bug free programs
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:22:18 -0400

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:57 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> Note that the 42 minutes here is a dumbed-down scheme interpreter
> written in C building/boostrapping the compiler. The guile compiler
> (the Scheme one) is quite a bit faster than that.

I know, but it's not necessary. Guile could take the scheme code which implements the efficient compiler, and just print out the C code (which JIT compiles the machine code) implementing that bytecode compiler. See the thunder.pdf I sent when I first proposed this idea:

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-08/msg00064.html


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