Traits approaching mainstream Squeak

Bryce Kampjes bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Sat Sep 3 18:34:41 UTC 2005


David P Harris writes:
 > Are the IRs described anywhere (url) other than in the code? 
 > 
 > Also, would other ports just use a different pattern-matcher in that 
 > last step?  (i.e. is the low-level IR general enough to allow other 
 > architectures of machines?) 

The IR's are only described in code. They're still very simple tree
based structures. There's more to a port than just writing a new
instruction scheduler (the matcher), there would also need to be a new
assembler. But the IR should be general enough to support any modern
architecture, there's probably a few tweaks needed though.

Bryce



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