Re: Medium-term road map

[Joshua Branson]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

>
> I think I have a solution here, as discussed on IRC.  Basic idea is to
> make a direct compiler from Tree-IL to bytecode, skipping the CPS step.
> The result won't be optimal in terms of generated code quality (I
> estimate on average 2x slowdown) but it will be very cheap to produce (I
> estimate 10x improvement in time, and going from O(n log n) space to
> O(n), with better constant factors.  We'd use this compiler for -O0 or
> maybe even -O1 code.
>
> Got to spend a few days working it up tho!
>
> Andy

I love how Andy can say something like "yeah I've thought of this
awesome idea that will result in a 10x performance gain"...and "oh yeah,
it'll only take me a few days to do it."  What's awesome is he is such a
genius, that he'll probably pull it off.  :)

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