Re: guile-vm 0.3

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Please check out the guile-lightning module from CVS.  It contains
> the start for Lightning support in Guile.  You can play arround with
> the JIT assembler, but a lot details are missing to really integrate
> it into the Guile run-time.

So I've been messing around with hobbit, and it does seem to work now,
though there are some things that would have to be fixed before anyone
would really want to use it.

However, in the end, all we (the gnucash people) really need is a
reasonable performance boost, and we do have a reasonable number of
(gnumatic) development hours we could spend on this.  So I'm trying to
figure out if that time would be better spent helping with Lightning
and/or the VM since they sound like they may be superior long-term
solutions, and our efforts would benefit more people.

If, with reasonable effort, the VM or Lightning could be ready for
limited use in a month or so, then we'd probably like to help with
that.  However, if it's going to be a lot longer than that, then I
suspect we should proably hold off, spend some time on other features
we need, and come back and help once we've finished those.

I'm also wondering if there's any technology we can lift from hobbit
to handle some of the compilation process needed when generating JIT
output.

So any sense of where things stand?  If we can help, we'd like to.

Thanks

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930