Re: Issues in ia64

[cr88192 sydney]

> posix can be autoloaded w/ some SMOP.
err?...

> what brain-slicing do you refer to?
what I had done with it would was using it as a lib, but all the "normal" 
extensions loaded in (ice-9, guile-gtk, ...). didn't work and couldn't be 
loaded without putting them in the current directory...

really though I like maintaining my own implementation anyways as I have 
quite a bit of control over the workings of the interpreter and I know the 
details of the system anyways...

I had also considered cool security features, but instead decided a 
different kind of security was more in order. at first I considered to use 
tag/predicate locking but then I came up with the idea that it would be 
easier just to run code in reduced environments (ie: an "unlet" form that 
can hide bindings, or by composing the top level environment from peices and 
making restrictions by which peices are included...).
ok, the real issue is that I don't know guile's workings in detail...

I have for a while been considering writting a compile system, I had written 
a general spec for the calling convention and how to handle precise 
gc/relocation/swizzling for the stack, if wanted I may be able to make the 
partial spec available. are there any real important issues for this?
in my spec call/cc is accomplished by copying the pages from the stack 
region into a continuation region and setting the real stack copy-on-write, 
is this good?

question: in guile anyways is it possible to supply your own mm and to 
inquire about the structure of objects? is there a spec on the structure of 
objects as well?...




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