Re: patching gcc to allow other calling conventions

2012-06-17 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > Did you consider starting from GNU/MIT Scheme?  It supports only IA32 > and x86_64, I think, but it’s in Scheme, and it’s GNU. Actually, that's an interesting thought in general. I looked at MIT scheme a bit a long time ago, but I believe it uses two intermediate languages, a high-level

Re: ballpark rtl speeds

2012-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andy Wingo skribis: > Some ballpark measurements of the overhead of the old VM, the new VM, > and C (compiled with gcc -g -O0). Woow, that looks promising. Thanks for the news. Ludo’.

Re: progress with native code generation in guile

2012-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Stefan! This sounds fun! Similarly, there’s the old Guile-Lightning, which could achieve something similar, albeit in an abstract ISA and not entirely in Scheme. Might be worth a look. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: patching gcc to allow other calling conventions

2012-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Stefan, Stefan Israelsson Tampe skribis: > The reason I wanted to fork sbcl is that it has assemblers for > x86,x86-64,alpha,hppa,sparc,ppc,mips e.g a few targets. It would be nice to > know what targets to focus on or if we need to add anyone else to the list! Did you consider starting from