Threaded In-Line Code (was Re: Typed Intermediate Language)

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  DLN> Just in case I'm not the only one here who doesn't know what TIL
  DLN> means:

  DLN> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/jgm/tilt.html

i think you are mistaken. TIL means to me Threaded In Line code. the
term threaded code had a meaning way before execution threads. it is a
very simple way to generate executable machine code and some compilers
used it. all the work was done in subroutines (as in perl) but the
generated code is real machine instructions which are mostly just
argument setup, sub calls and return handling. so you can see the flow
'threading' in and out of each sub.

the term threaded is lost to many since the overriding use of execution
threads.

BTW we could generate c code that is TIL but i wonder how efficient that
will be. it would allow us to get TIL on many platforms quickly and then
we could create proper backend TIL generators for each platform.

uri

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