Hi Pierre,

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 11:03 PM pierre misse <pierre_misse25 at msn.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently trying to create a "high" level language to that aims to
> express low level concepts through transpilation to C.
>
> I have a limited experience building such programs, and thought people who
> build virtual machines would be the right group of people to ask what they
> need in low level programing!
> I've also made some research, and stumbled Slang, on which i found little
> documentation (probably because i didn't find the right combination of
> words).
>
> So if you have a bit of time to share, i'd love to know:
>
>    - What you kind of concepts you need
>
>
That depends pn the architecture you choose.  There are static and dynamic
approaches, approaches centered around optimization and JIT com platoon and
approaches centered around embedding a domain-specific language (DSL) in a
high-level language to allow for specific low-level code to be generated.

I would love for you to direct your attention to Ronie Salgado's work on
Lowcode, and Clément Béra's and my work on Sista and Scorch.  Ronie's work
is a combination of providing a DSL for communicating with graphics
renderers.  This fairs within the extensions to the bytecode set Clément
and I have designed for aggressive adaptive optimization in the context of
a JIT.  Note that Ronie's subset of bytecodes has also shown speedups in a
pure interpreter.  We have papers on both systems.


>
>    - What's not required, but interesting
>
> I don't have time or resources to explore the inessential ;-)

>
>    - What you'd wish to hide from C to be taken care of by the transpiler
>
> For me C is an implementation language; a portable assembler.  There
really isn't any need to hide anything from C.  But the only time I pay
attention to C is when I have to debug the system in the C world, which is
thankfully rare, or shen the transpolar has a bug which manifests as a
failure for the C to compiler.  So it's not an issue of hiding or revealing
things to C.  It's an issue of C not being a useful context in which to get
work done.  It's effectively write-only.

HTH

Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre Misse.
>
>

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