I'd be down! This sounds like a great project.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > So long in the past, it seemed that Keisuke's Guile-VM would mature and > replace the existing scm_ceval(). Everyone was down with it: Marius, > Mikael, etc. But it seems that there were some lingering issues, and it > didn't really settle down into Guile proper. > > Then a couple yeats ago (!), Ludovic proposed reviving guile-vm, and > started hacking on it in some arch archive somewheres. But again, time > was lacking (I assume) and I can't even find that archive any more. > Ludovic? > > I think that a bytecode compiler and VM makes a lot of sense for Guile. > I don't see native compilation ever being a primary target of Guile, > given that our strength is our ubiquity and how we play nice with C, but > a VM would finally bring Guile's speed up to be comparable with e.g. > python. > > Also it would be fun to hack! > > So how about making guile-vm in core guile a goal for 1.10? I guess the > way to start is for Ludovic to import his repo into git and expose it > somewhere, and perhaps merge it into Guile proper on a branch. Then we > can test it out, see what's going on, hack hack hack&stuff, and maybe > merge it to master at some point. > > Thoughts? Neil, Ludo? Other hackers that have always wanted to play > with a compiler (me, me!) ? :-)
