Oh great to hear this extra backstory! Atsuro, welcome to the Guile community... I'd love to see collaboration between you and Guile core!
Nala Ginrut writes: > Well, there's interesting story behind it. > Few days ago this new JIT backend named Nash was introduced in ICFP2016 > (scheme > workshop), I and Ludo are lecturers too. When I first saw the topic, I looked > back to Ludo and thought "oh you guys are making a new weapon secretly huh?" > I thought this work must be encouraged and helped by Ludo or Wingo or Mark, > but > finally I realized that I was wrong, the authorAtsuro Hoshino was hacking JIT > backend for Guile all by himself. Ludo got surprised too. > I have to say, lone hero pattern is not recommended for a community project, > but > anyway he did it bravely and the result seems good according to the paper. > After the meeting, I and Ludo tried to convince him to get involved into our > community to get more help and feedback. > > I CC him here, and it depends on him whether/when to introduce more. > > I think this project is just amazing, really! Thank you Hoshino! ;-) > > Best regards. > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 12:30 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Earlier today, David Thompson pointed to this paper in #guix on >> freenode: >> >> https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit-documentation/raw/master/nash.pdf >> >> And here seems to be the source: >> >> https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit >> >> I'm not informed enough to judge this myself, but this seems like a >> reasonable start-of-implementation of the ideas expressed here: >> >> http://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/03/two-paths-one-peak-a-view-from-below >> -on-high-performance-language-implementations >> >> It mentions hot loops and compiling to native code... that's about as >> much as I can tell myself about it being on track.But it seems pretty >> cool, especially for something shooting onto the radar seemingly out of >> nowhere! >> >> Anyone more informed have thoughts? :) >> - Chris >>