On 10 Jun 2005 11:56:06 -0400, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > [ I've tried to subscribe to the lispnyc group, but apparently have > failed. Should I retry? ] > > The beauty of this idea is that a simple yet completely servicable > integration can be had with very little effort by simply tacking on > the gcc C frontend to the end of GCL's compiler. We can then > incrementally have the compiler emit gcc 'trees' directly in certain > circumstances. I don't think that this part of the transaction is going to be so smooth :( The C front end expects to get its input for a file and ships one function at a time to the backend. The GENERIC trees are constructed in memory. This makes it complicated to have a compilation unit that is partially C and partially GENERIC.
> What we gain here is more than optimization, I think. We gain > mindshare and support resources for lisp going forward. There was > quite a bit of interest in this project from regular gcc contributers > when I last suggested it -- it would be great to be able to lever some > of their outstanding expertise in the service of lisp. It is good to know that :) > I don't forsee any undue difficulties, apart from the complexity that > any such project would entail. But really, its all just an I/O > filter :-). > > I'll do it myself eventually if time permits, but ansi compliance > comes first. Thanks. > Take care, > > -- > Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > Rafael _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
