[gambit-list] scheme on llvm

Harold Ancell hga at ancell-ent.com
Fri Jul 31 07:57:03 EDT 2009


At 02:19 AM 7/31/2009, lowly coder wrote:
>I've been on gambit for 6+ months now; and the more I dig into the
>internal *.scm's, the more I'm impressed -- anyone interested in
>forming a group to port this to LLVM as an exercise to better
>understand gambit internals? Something like meeting on irc 15 minutes
>every week or so to discuss would be really nice.

I'm very interested, but I just got tasked with creating a
web site of some sophistication and it looks like I'll be
drawn to the Clojure side of the Force, which at minimum
will be educational (e.g. it's by default functional).  But
who knows....

Back then I got a snapshot of the initial cut by Arnaud
Bergeron and Mathieu Larose from the former for placement in
the Dumping Grounds, but didn't get a release from the latter
for putting it there; I didn't try very hard at all and didn't
follow up.

Mathieu, say the word and I'll put that snapshot up.

>On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Bradley Lucier<lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>>
>>> It's six months since this post. Any progress on the llvm backend?
>>
>> The last time I compiled the Gambit-generated C code with LLVM (which
>> wasn't so long ago) gsi failed at startup.  (I know this isn't what
>> you're referring to, but I presume the LLVM compiler may have the
>> same difficulties compiling the LLVM intermediate representation.)

Hmmmm; I assume you used the gcc front end instead of Clang?

                                        - Harold




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