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