jorge could you make a list of things to do in 10 min? So that we get an idea. I really believe that we should invest for the future.
Stef On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Jorge Ressia wrote: > Yes, the New compiler is not better. However, I think the New Compiler > is the right direction to pursue. > > After fighting with it for some months to make the Closures work in it > I can tell you that I learn a great deal from it, painfully :) . > But I now have a pretty good idea of what it is required to have a > modularized compiler with more suitable abstraction for this > particular domain. > I implemented many tests and I have to implement a lot more. Then, I > believe that by expressing ourselves through these tests we will be > able to modify the compiler to make it look the way we want. > > At least that is my plan with the New compiler. > > Cheers, > > Jorge > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'll try to build the tests and come up with a better solution. >>> >>> You what I would love to spend 2/3 weeks just coding in the new compiler >>> and making sure >>> that it has the right abstractions/messages to deal with issue like that. >> >> The problem is that the New Compiler is not really in a better state >> than the old compiler. Of course it has more objects and is much >> easier to extend, but all in all it is a mess too. This is mostly due >> to the fact that the system below it changed quite a bit in the past >> years (pragmas, properties, closures, primitives, new bytecodes, ...) >> and that the New Compiler had to be patched and changed quite heavily >> to accommodate these new requirements that it was not designed for. >> Maintaining and fixing the New Compiler got so extremely expensive >> that it is questionable if this is still a viable platform? Ask Jorge >> and Marcus. >> >> Lukas >> >> -- >> Lukas Renggli >> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
