Octave compiler

[Paul Thomas]

JD and Jens,

Have you given any thought yet as to how you will do the C++ generation?  

I suppose that a first order approach would be, in essence, to output 
the octave evaluator code.  However, I suspect that the performance 
improvement over that of the interpreter/evaluator will not be as 
impressive as writing .oct files "by hand".  Therefore, the trick is 
going to be to improve on the evaluator, particularly where type 
identification, indirect referencing and bound checking is concerned. 
Once you do that, the strategy you have adopted should allow to 
similarly improve octave's evaluator, should it not?

Paul Thomas