On 12-01-03 02:29 AM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
Saw this over at LtU and thought this might interest a few people
here: http://code.google.com/p/decac/
And here's a paper describing it in more detail:
http://decac.googlecode.com/files/Deca%20Thesis.pdf
There's some interesting stuff in there, for sure! At a glance, the
scoped pointer types, treatment of extensible variants (with class
encoding), and multiple-dispatch systems seem worth studying some.
It's missing clearly-defined strategies for quite a bit of stuff we've
focused on, mind you:
- Indefinite-extent allocation (cycles, leaks, etc.: malloc/free only)
- Separate compilation (linkage, versioning, etc.: whole program only)
- Copy minimization (move semantics, etc.)
- Concurrent execution
- Failure containment
- Syntactic extension
- Efficient / safe environment capture
- Interop with C
But I'll certainly add it to the list of interesting competitors to keep
an eye on. Really we ought to have such a list prominently on the
website; it's good to keep us honest :)
-Graydon
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