On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Patrick Li <patrickli.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > How should I proceed from here? These are the options that I've come up > with: > (1) Optimize variable lookup. Currently the environment is represented as a > list of key-value pairs. Variable lookup is done by searching through the > list. > (2) "Analyze" the code before evaluating it (ie. as in SICP). Ie. for an > (if) form, it will determine that it is an if form during the analysis > phase, so that at execution stage it won't have to repeatedly figure out > what sort of form it is. > (3) Write a very simple VM, and develop a simple byte-code compiler. The > problem here is that I don't really know how to deal with first-class > continuations.
If you want to implement a VM you may want to read Dybvig's PHD dissertation: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf Cheers, Sam _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
