Re: [racket-dev] the racket machine

2010-09-24 Thread Robby Findler
Yes. This is going to be a HOSC publication (HOSC willing). Robby On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robby Findler > wrote: >> I know there are a bunch of people working >> on things at that level, so if you have a chance to take a loo

Re: [racket-dev] the racket machine

2010-09-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I know there are a bunch of people working > on things at that level, so if you have a chance to take a look at > this, you might find it useful as you muck about down there (there are > examples and things :). Cool! Is it too much to ask f

Re: [racket-dev] the racket machine

2010-09-24 Thread Noel Welsh
I'm not the right guy to comment on the details of your paper, but specifying the bytecode format is a big win IMO -- it opens up a lot of room for experimentation on the runtime. This is the flipside of multiple language support. Often it is the runtime characteristics that are of as much interest

[racket-dev] the racket machine

2010-09-24 Thread Robby Findler
Hi folks: Casey, Matthew, and I have just sent out a paper to HOSC about the racket machine. I know there are a bunch of people working on things at that level, so if you have a chance to take a look at this, you might find it useful as you muck about down there (there are examples and things :). D

Re: [racket-dev] speeding up 16-bit integer adds

2010-09-24 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:42 AM, John Clements wrote: the inner loop. Grr! Any suggestions? Inline assembly? It works and is easy to do -- you'll need to extend http://github.com/noelwelsh/assembler/ with jumps. I'm serious. N. _ For list-related