Re: Possible starting point for Octave Compiler?

[JD Cole]

Randy Gober wrote:

> I am not sure if this is the right place, but will surfing the net I came
> across this. 
>
> A MATLAB Compiler for Parallel Computers
> Michael J. Quinn, Oregon State University
>
> http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~quinn/matlab.html
>
> My excitement waned a little when I saw the abstracts dated 1998, but I
> decided to post it any way.
>
>
> --Randy
>
>
>  

I've been thinking been toying around with an Octave compiler lately 
also. The nice part about developing such a tool for Octave is that we 
don't have to do steps 1 and two described in the above link, (here's 
one for GPL) because we have access to Octave source. We also don't need 
to develop a run-time library, for the same reason. Actually it would 
seem that right now we could have octave build simple, un-optimized, 
scripts if each octave value was given a print_c_code type function. (Of 
course its not that straight forward, but a substantial amount of the 
groundwork already exists.)

-JD