[gambit-list] Guidelines to implement a backend?

Mikael mikael.trash at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 10:21:12 EST 2011


Is this because the stack needs to be software-emulated in a language such
as PHP - is there no way to apply some tough optimizations making the speed
loss <=15% or so as compared with code handwritten in the host language?
Mikael

2011/2/11 Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro at mac.com>

>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote:
>
> > But at least I hope that Scheme-to-PHP converted code will be not
> > much slower than an equivalent native PHP code.
>
> Maybe you misunderstood what Marc said about this:
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
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> > My intuition tells me that the code generated by Gambit-PHP will be at
> best an order of magnitude slower than pure PHP.
>
> i.e., Marc thinks the Gambit Scheme->PHP generated code will be at least 10
> times slower than pure PHP. In my book, that's "much slower."
>
> warmest regards,
>
> Ralph
>
>
> Raffael Cavallaro
> raffaelcavallaro at me.com
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