Re: Experimental JIT for Guile (???!)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Oh great to hear this extra backstory!

Atsuro, welcome to the Guile community... I'd love to see collaboration
between you and Guile core!

Nala Ginrut writes:

> Well, there's interesting story behind it.
> Few days ago this new JIT backend named Nash was introduced in ICFP2016 
> (scheme
> workshop), I and Ludo are lecturers too. When I first saw the topic, I looked
> back to Ludo and thought "oh you guys are making a new weapon secretly huh?"
> I thought this work must be encouraged and helped by Ludo or Wingo or Mark, 
> but
> finally I realized that I was wrong, the authorAtsuro Hoshino was hacking JIT
> backend for Guile all by himself. Ludo got surprised too.
> I have to say, lone hero pattern is not recommended for a community project, 
> but
> anyway he did it bravely and the result seems good according to the paper.
> After the meeting, I and Ludo tried to convince him to get involved into our
> community to get more help and feedback.
>
> I CC him here, and it depends on him whether/when to introduce more.
>
> I think this project is just amazing, really! Thank you Hoshino! ;-)
>
> Best regards.
>
> On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 12:30 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Earlier today, David Thompson pointed to this paper in #guix on
>> freenode:
>> 
>>  https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit-documentation/raw/master/nash.pdf
>> 
>> And here seems to be the source:
>> 
>>  https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit
>> 
>> I'm not informed enough to judge this myself, but this seems like a
>> reasonable start-of-implementation of the ideas expressed here:
>> 
>>  http://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/03/two-paths-one-peak-a-view-from-below
>> -on-high-performance-language-implementations
>> 
>> It mentions hot loops and compiling to native code... that's about as
>> much as I can tell myself about it being on track.But it seems pretty
>> cool, especially for something shooting onto the radar seemingly out of
>> nowhere!
>> 
>> Anyone more informed have thoughts? :)
>> - Chris
>>