I'd be interested in hearing how it's going! Just curious, are you reusing ideas from Scheme-79, or starting off in an entirely different direction? From your original email, I assume you're using JOP as a springing board?
Alex > On Oct 19, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Petr Samarin <petrsama...@gmail.com> wrote: > > First I want to develop a small core (probably written in VHDL) that supports > a subset of Racket's bytecode. > I don't want to target any specific board/FPGA so that it can be used > anywhere. > But during development I will be testing the core on the board that I have at > home (DE2-70 from Terrasic). > > When the basic version is done, I am also interested in how much parallelism > can be achieved on the VM level (adding more stacks, executing several > bytecodes at once, etc.). > > Petr > >> On Oct 19, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >> Petr, I will be very interested to hear how this project goes, including >> which FPGA you end up targeting, your application (large-scale parallel? >> low power?), and how speed compares to the JIT'd VM running on CPUs. >> >> If you can use an open source toolchain, all the better, although a >> free-as-in-beer toolchain would also be OK if the open source ones don't >> support your target. If it requires an expensive toolchain, it's still a >> good project, but much harder for other people to build on after you are >> done. (The beefier FPGAs I was looking at in the last year, for numeric >> computing, seemed to require expensive proprietary toolchains.) >> >> Neil V. > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
