Andy Wingo writes:
> Hi Neil!
Hi Andy!
> On Fri 26 Jun 2009 00:47, Neil Jerram writes:
>
>> Thanks, I see now. But presumably even VM code will frequently call
>> out to primitives all over libguile, won't it?
>
> Over time, I'd say no. I see functions written in C migrating over to be
> writ
Hi Neil!
On Fri 26 Jun 2009 00:47, Neil Jerram writes:
> Andy Wingo writes:
>
>> I don't have Neil's mail open here, but my thought was this: getting a
>> fast VM is a dark art of feeling and instinct, My feeling is that a VM
>> is fast if it fits in the CPU's cache: the instruction cache and t
Hi,
I've gone ahead and added vector and bytevector ops to the VM. That
should provide a considerable speedup to programs that use those data
structures.
As far as brainfuck goes:
On Wed 24 Jun 2009 14:03, Andy Wingo writes:
> brainfuck@(guile-user)> ,c ++]
brainfuck@(guile-user)> ,c
Andy Wingo writes:
> I don't have Neil's mail open here, but my thought was this: getting a
> fast VM is a dark art of feeling and instinct, My feeling is that a VM
> is fast if it fits in the CPU's cache: the instruction cache and the
> data cache. The data cache means that smaller code is bette
Howdy,
I didn't mean to push those commits I just pushed -- my girlfriend was
looking for the web browser, but was on a full-screen Emacs window with
magit, and somehow clicking around pushed some commits! Perhaps this is
Marius' way of contributing to Guile these days ;-)
But I think they might
Hi,
Andy Wingo writes:
> What I'm getting at is that I think we should have VM ops for working on
> vectors -- both generic vectors, and specific ops for bytevectors, and
> probably an op for string-ref as well, and possibly string-set!. Then a
> native code backend could be effectively implemen
Andy Wingo writes:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm pretty displeased about the way that the brainfuck compilation
> works. Check this:
>
> brainfuck@(guile-user)> ,c ++]
>
> (The trailing ] is to note the end of the program. It's kindof a hack,
> but it works fine.)
Yes, seems OK. Presumably in real bra
