Howdy, Thank you very much for this great work bacek++ !
I will help as much as I can in the name of replacing IMCC. Are you using the github issue tracker or the Parrot Trac instance for bug/issue tracking? Duke On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Vasily Chekalkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I think it's now time to "formally" introduce PIRATE on which I, > cotto, tcurtis and other people work recently. > > "PIRATE is PIR compiler implemented in NQP/PCT". Main reasons behind > development (for me at least): > 1. -Ofun. It was interesting expirience to implement compiler for > somehow useful language. > 2. Ability to emit PBC directly from POST. > 3. Retire IMCC in future. > > PIRATE consists of two large parts: > 1. PIR parser.It's mostly done. 2 things isn't finished yet: proper > string handling (encoding/charset/interpolation) > 2. POST pbc emitter. > > For ability to emit PBC from POST I extended POST from parrot trunk to > have more semantically reach. E.g. trunk's POST::Sub.add_param just > add chunk of text. POST::Op's arguments are just junks of texts, etc. > In PIRATE I introduced various POST::* classes insted. E.g. > POST::Register to hold registers, POST::Constant for constants, etc. > > Currently PIRATE can emit "sub-optimal" PBC for simple pir files. E.g. > patched fib.pir (there is no "@ARGV" support atm). > > tcurtis++ work on "real-life" application for his GSoC's past > optimization framework. > > I'm going finish PBC emiting in terms of fully support required > features (sub modifiers, different call typess, etc). > > After this we can update PAST::Compiler to emit "new" POST and stop > depending on IMCC for PCT-based languages. > > Using of PIRATE as drop-in replacement of IMCC is in > "nice-to-have-but-there-is-no-dealine" todo list. > > -- > Bacek. > > P.S. It's on http://github.com/bacek/pir/. Anyone with signed CLA can > ping me on IRC or via email to get commit bit. > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
