Re: Phoenix language

[David Chisnall]

On 22 Oct 2014, at 18:14, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@computer.org> wrote:

>> John Siracusa's review of Yosemite is extensive; for this thread, the 
>> embedded extensive overview of Swift is more interesting. I would highly 
>> recommend reading pages 21, 22, 23 as an overview of what makes Swift 
>> interesting. It sounds like the added step of compiling code into SIL before 
>> compiling and optimizing SIL into LLVM IR makes some interesting 
>> optimizations possible.
>>   http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/21/
>> 
>> I'd be particularly interested in hearing from Gregory what is the intended 
>> pipeline in Phoenix and how it compares to what Swift compiler is doing. 
> 
> Yes, that would be interesting to learn how the architecture is intended to 
> look like. If it is a pre-compiler (using some other for real binary code 
> generation) or it it is intended to generate bytecode or whatever.

I would also be interested in this.  Looking at the existing code, it looks 
like a compiler that is based on the state of the art circa 1970 that would 
need a complete redesign to be comparable to anything vaguely modern.  I 
appreciate that there's a strong desire for people to leap into this kind of 
project, but designing a compiler for a modern language is not a trivial task.

David

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