I actually did that and have a stalled branch of it in my computer. On the other hand it's only a nice hack and I recomend that you do it in your own great way. I will try to follow your progress and perhaps add som coments along the way.
Have fun Stefan On 8 Jun 2013 14:12, "Andy Wingo" <wi...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Ludo and I had a fun time at the European Lisp Symposium last week, > meeting other lispers, schemers, and a rogue racketeer. We also managed > to spend some time going through the pending patches, as you probably > saw, and I'll be landing them as I fix up docstrings ;) > > We also talked about the way forward to target RTL from Scheme. While > we both think that Noah's CPS work is the way to go, we're a little > concerned that to try to land the new VM and the new compiler at the > same time is too much uncertainty. So as a stopgap, we're going to try > to compile Tree-IL directly to RTL. We'll run a pass over the tree-il > that converts it to ANF, then adapt the existing tree-il->glil compiler > to target RTL. I know that compiler pretty well so I should be able to > make some good progress there fairly quickly. > > So that's the plan. It will probably make the CPS work easier, > actually, as there will be example RTL code and we'll be sure the VM is > capable enough, and we don't have to also worry about the VM > switchover. But we'll see :) > > Cheers, > > Andy > -- > http://wingolog.org/ > >
