Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:52:34AM -0400, Josiah Bryan wrote: > However, I would be quite interested in hearing > details and specific examples of ways to implement > this dream as a reality. I don't think we should go this way either, sorry; if you want to try and pin the supercompilation guy

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-14 Thread Josiah Bryan
John Porter wrote: > > No you're not. I for one am sick of this thread. > Not only has it nothing to do with AI in particular > (it could easily live on clp.misc), but also, nothing > substantial is being said about it. People are just > expressing their opinions on how feasible or useful > it's

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-10 Thread John Porter
Tom Fawcett wrote: > > guinevere liberty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we're voting (apologies if we're not) then add my name - and some friends > > of mine too - to the list of pro this thread, i think it is both related and > > interesting. > > All: No need to stop, I'm apparently the only

RE: Modern Programming Language Concepts (was: RE: Supercompiled Perl)

2001-08-10 Thread Lee Goddard
> From: Helmut Enck-Radana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On 10 Aug 2001, at 10:49, Lee Goddard wrote: > > > What new concepts have been made manifest in languages that I can > > use today? I'll try them out. > > Seems you are asking 2 questions: > > 1. What new concepts have been made manifest

Modern Programming Language Concepts (was: RE: Supercompiled Perl)

2001-08-10 Thread Helmut Enck-Radana
On 10 Aug 2001, at 10:49, Lee Goddard wrote: > What new concepts have been made manifest in languages that I can > use today? I'll try them out. Seems you are asking 2 questions: 1. What new concepts have been made manifest in languages? -> There are a lot of text books, articles and research

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-10 Thread Lee Goddard
> From: Helmut Enck-Radana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Obviously there is a big gap between what is possible today and what > is used to be done in industry. Helmut - We are the industry. What new concepts have been made manifest in languages that I can use today? I'll try them out. - lee

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-10 Thread Helmut Enck-Radana
At 09:22 06-08-01, Simon Cozens wrote: >Isn't it *really strange* that something so utterly revolutionary would >never take off at all... It looks less strange, when you think of the fact that all prevalent programming languages are mainly based on concepts which are 30 to 40 years old - as if

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Valentin Turchin
-Original Message- From: Helmut Enck-Radana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 03:51 PM >At 20:21 08-08-01, Tom Fawcett wrote: >>This is an interesting topic but it seems unrelated to artificial >>intelligence using Perl. > >One of the traditional topics of AI is t

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Gidon Wise
I might be off base here, but aren't you describing caching results of a program by your "Meta-Program"??? I do this with perl scripts all the time . In fact CGI::Cache in CPAN is pretty good and there are others that are also good for various situations. "Andrei P. Nemytykh" wrote: > > Dear

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Andrei P. Nemytykh
Dear colleagues, Valentin Turchin wrote: > You can use supercompilation with Perl in two ways. > (1) Write an interpreter of Perl in Refal and use it with the existing supercompiler >SCP4 > (written by myself and Andrei Nemytykh). As I said above, the goal is double: >speed-up > and possible

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Tom Fawcett
guinevere liberty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we're voting (apologies if we're not) then add my name - and some friends > of mine too - to the list of pro this thread, i think it is both related and > interesting. All: No need to stop, I'm apparently the only one who cares. -Tom

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Allen_Gregg
Can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe? I'm changing jobs and will resubscribe when I get settled at my new place of employment. Thanks, Gregg R. Allen EMC 2 Layered Product Engineering 62 TW Alexander Dr Research Triangle Park, NC. 27709 Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-09 Thread ianb
On 08 Aug 01 at 11:09:56PM, guinevere liberty wrote: > okay, if this is how people feel (and want this to > branch) can we please create a (temporary perhaps) > email list - via addressbook is ok - where we can > discuss supercompilers in relation to perl/perl-ai? > whoever wants to take the init

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread guinevere liberty
> I would be happy enough with a quintessential > general AI program that ran 20 > or even a 100 times slower than optimal. Upon > completion I'm sure the beast > would rewrite itself on the fly in assembly, and > dawn a new chapter in > history. If we're ever going to get there, we've > got to

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread guinevere liberty
elmut > Enck-Radana; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Supercompiled Perl > > > Tom, > > The discussion isn't directly related to AI with > Perl, but I do think it > should be of interest to perl-ai folks. The primary > reason for this > (apart from the coolness fa

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread David M Guzak
Jordan, When a supercompiler is necessary for an ai-perl code implementation, it seems relevant. When talking about supercompilation development itself the question becomes how is "perl-ai" directly involved. In your own message you point out it may be of great utility. This means it may be us

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:39:14PM -0500, Joe Schulman wrote: > I have no problem with it and find it extremely interesting. Although I have supreme doubts that this will work, and I also believe that more effort should be spent on the *real* next implementation of the Perl interpreter, Perl 6, t

RE: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Joe Schulman
; Helmut Enck-Radana; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Supercompiled Perl Tom, The discussion isn't directly related to AI with Perl, but I do think it should be of interest to perl-ai folks. The primary reason for this (apart from the coolness factor) is that, as Valentin mentioned i

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Helmut Enck-Radana
At 20:21 08-08-01, Tom Fawcett wrote: >This is an interesting topic but it seems unrelated to artificial >intelligence using Perl. One of the traditional topics of AI is to find ways to generate implementations from specifications. While this is not possible in general, there are enough situat

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Jordan Dimov
Tom, The discussion isn't directly related to AI with Perl, but I do think it should be of interest to perl-ai folks. The primary reason for this (apart from the coolness factor) is that, as Valentin mentioned in his earlier message, significant speed-ups may lead to changes in programming

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Tom Fawcett
Gents, This is an interesting topic but it seems unrelated to artificial intelligence using Perl. Could you take [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the replies (or explain how it's relevant)? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-08 Thread Jordan Dimov
gt; > -Original Message- > From: Jordan Dimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Valentin Turchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Helmut Enck-Radana ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Simon Cozens ><

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-07 Thread Valentin Turchin
TED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Helmut Enck-Radana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 06, 2001 06:08 PM Subject: Re: Supercompiled Perl > > Valentin, > > Cou

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-06 Thread Valentin Turchin
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Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-06 Thread Jordan Dimov
t; > > -Original Message- > From: Helmut Enck-Radana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Jordan Dimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Simon Cozens ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-08-04 Thread Helmut Enck-Radana
John Porter wrote: >Jordan Dimov wrote: >>Turchin has founded a start up (www.supercompilers.com) with the purpose >>of developing a supercompiler for Java, speeding up Java code by a factor >>of 100. > >The culture of Java encourages fantastic hyperbole. Simon Cozens wrote: >Jordan Dimov wrote

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-05-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:25:43AM -0500, Jordan Dimov wrote: > Is anyone here familiar with the concept of supercompilation, as > described by prof. Valentin Turchin in [1] for example? > [1] ``The Concept of a Supercompiler'', Valenting F. Turchin, ACM Trans. > Program. Lang. Syst. 8, 3 (J

Re: Supercompiled Perl

2001-05-25 Thread John Porter
Jordan Dimov wrote: > Turchin has > founded a start up (www.supercompilers.com) with the purpose of developing > a supercompiler for Java, speeding up Java code by a factor of 100. The culture of Java encourages fantastic hyperbole. -- John Porter