On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM, David Jeske <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any work on static metacompilation in such languages.
>>
>
> Can you offer a formal or informal definition for "static metacompilation"?
>

Informally: A compilation approach in which the compiler can choose to emit
code at static compile time that generates and invokes code at runtime.
E.g. to perform dynamic loop unrolling. Have a look at Engler's work on
tick-c at Stanford, which I've mentioned here several times,.


> I interpret this to mean "late AOT whole program compile", as opposed to a
> JIT compile. Which would mean all whole-program compilers are pretty close
> for some definition of late.
>

Nothing to do with that at all.


shap
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