Hi Guido, Thank you for sharing your insights here, I have fun reading them.
But please respect Alex decision in using LLVM for pil21, its his choice and its his programming language, so please stop discouraging him. BR, Geo On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:12 PM John Duncan <duncan.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Alex, > > Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work. I hope you find a > blowhard like Guido amusing and not too irritating. I get the impression > he’s hardly written a line of code in his life, and that was probably in > Java. > > Take care! > > John > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 07:59 Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:51:33PM +0200, Guido Stepken wrote: >> > Use Mike's DYNASM JIT Engine. Better, faster, smaller (tiny, in >> comparison >> > to LLVM), more portable. He's from Munich. >> >> Useless. >> >> Sigh! How often have I told here that the main purpose of pil21 is >> portability? >> I need it to build PilBox on iOS, and to support RISC-V architectures. In >> fact >> *all* 64-bit architectures, as I got tired of porting pil64. >> >> And I need it NOW!! Not *perhaps* in ten years. >> >> Also, please shut up with WebAssembly. I need something running on POSIX >> for >> server side applications. Something in the browser is as useful for me as >> chewing gum for my cat. >> >> — Alex >> >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >> > -- > John Duncan >
