Reviving Guile-VM again

2008-04-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, I imported the Guile-VM stuff into Git (i.e., CVS + Arch history) and it's available as follows: git-clone http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile-vm.git (I actually created a `guile-vm' project at repo.or.cz but my SSH key there is obsolete and it cannot be updated automatically. I

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-05-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Ludovic CourtÃs wrote: I'm not yet very familiar with this part of Guile-VM. Roughly, GHIL is pretty close to Scheme: it has primitives like quote/unquote, variable-ref/variable-set, define, lambda, if, call, etc. GLIL, on the other hand, is very close to the VM's assembly language: it can be told

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-05-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So where is the "biggest" jump here? Would it be correct to say > something like GHIL is a good target for all Lisp-like languages; and > GLIL is a more general target that allows for more different languages? I'm not yet very familiar with this par

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-05-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Ludovic CourtÃs wrote: QScheme [1] has apparently been abandoned since 2000, and it looks like its VM has never been fully functional. Guile-VM seems much more mature actually. However, that of STklos is fully functional and it seems to be pretty close to Guile-VM (similar instruction set). Cool,

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-05-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is excellent news. It always seemed like a very interesting > project when Keisuke was working on it and discussing on the mailing > list. (Unfortunately, though, I can't say that I understood it very > much.) Well, it seems that it had bec

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-05-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: I've started trying to revive Guile-VM which was written by Keisuke Nishida 5 years ago [1] and was unfortunately never finished nor adopted. That is excellent news. It always seemed like a very interesting project when Keisu

Re: Reviving Guile-VM

2005-04-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > I've started trying to revive Guile-VM which was written by Keisuke > Nishida 5 years ago [1] and was unfortunately never finished nor > adopted. I did not mention precisely what Guile-VM is and not everyone heard about it before. So here we go.

Reviving Guile-VM

2005-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I've started trying to revive Guile-VM which was written by Keisuke Nishida 5 years ago [1] and was unfortunately never finished nor adopted. So far I've been mostly learning about it and updating it so that it can use 1.7 [2]. I don't know whether I'll eventually get to something useful but