[IDEAS] Looking at Factor

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 7 19:59:45 UTC 2006


Does the "real closures" package work with it?

Thanks
JJ


>From: Bryce Kampjes <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: [IDEAS] Looking at Factor
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:19:48 +0100
>
>Giovanni Giorgi writes:
>  >
>  > I am studying factor and would be quite easy to build a
>  > Squeak-bytecode2factor compiler.
>  > Because factor  has a x86/PPC compiler, we can get for free a very
>  > fast Squeak at the end.
>
>If your goal is to make Squeak much faster then helping out on
>Exupery would probably be less work with more gain. Exupery can
>already compile almost all of Squeak's bytecodes. It has polymorphic
>inline caches to speed up sends. It can compile blocks. It can
>dynamically inline primitives.
>
>The current priorities are compiling more primitives and fixing bugs
>aiming at getting to a 1.0 release as soon as possible.
>
>Bryce
>





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