Extensible vm ops?

2012-08-09 Thread Tristan Colgate
Hi All, Is it possible, or practical, to support addition of VM ops to the VM dynamically? The only use case I am really thinking of is for adding SIMD based functions for operations on uniform numeric vectors. I realise I could just take all the funky maths and add it in a C extension, but

Re: Guile build failure

2012-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi David, and sorry for the delay, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be skribis: ;;; (remaining /mnt/galia/linux/64/local/src/guile/guile-2.0.6/load-test.dir (. .. .nfs121e01b20019 .nfs121e01b3001a)) Aaah, those hidden files are the culprit. I’ll guess we’ll have to live

wip-rtl native patch

2012-08-09 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Hi, DO you think that this will do as an initial patch to wip-rtl in order to introduce the possibility to execute native code or JIT:ed code. We reserve the first two indexes in the ip text area to fit a pointer to native code to be executed. There is changes to two parts of the code 1.

Patch for system-error-printer

2012-08-09 Thread Krister Svanlund
Hi, I wrote a patch for the exception printers for printing one kind of system-error exceptions. I'm not sure this is the only format that's needed but I found the current default printer very annoying for this particular kind of exception. The patch is attached. Yours, Krister Svanlund