On March 15th at 10am MDT, please join us for the second Inside Racket Seminar where Matthew Flatt will give us a walk-through of the bytecode compiler.
As before, it will be on Google Hangouts on Air with Matthew walking through the code and giving an explanation of how it all hooks together. This is not a tutorial on Racket or on the compiler as a library, but a kind of oral history and explanation of the software and how it works. Our hope is that this will increase the ability of others to build and maintain similar software as we share this kind of expertise in a way that doesn't fit our existing distribution mechanisms (research papers, RacketCon talks, documentation, etc.) I hope that you are able to attend and send your own questions as we go through. Here are some things you may want to look at to prepare: 0. The compiler is written in C, so be ready for that. :) 1. The decompiler tool has an explanation of the high-level structure of the bytecode: http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/decompile.html 2. Casey's paper with Matthew and Robby, "The Racket Virtual Machine and Randomize Testing", has another explanation of the bytecode and a reduction semantics for it: http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/racket-machine/ 3. R. Kent Dybvig's 1987 PhD thesis, "Three Implementation Models for Scheme", is readable and was personally very useful for me in understanding how an implementation like Racket's works (in particular, the second model): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf Please feel free to send questions beforehand, on this thread or to me personally. We will archive the video for later viewing, etc. Jay -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDanRP%3DRfrYFRg0R-N1uiuPF%3DV8Sk_8Cgbtvc59Q99QaK6A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
