Re: Octave Interpreter

[Richard Crozier]

On 02/10/14 13:34, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 2014-10-01 21:16, Bipin Mathew wrote:

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> >   All this being said, perhaps someone more familiar with the source
> > code could comment on how easy / impossible such a thing would be
> > given the current state of Octave? In terms of your direct question of
> > how you can build a compiler for Octave, I believe a good place to
> > start is to look at the lex/yacc grammar files:
> >
> > octave/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll
> > octave/libinterp/parse-tree/oct-parse.yy
>
> I'm honestly not entirely sure I understand the question: What
> additional support in terms of language support is needed to provide a
> "distributed Octave" ?

>      Stefan

Making 'parfor' loops work with actual parallel pools might be what is 
meant:

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/distcomp/parfor.html

Richard

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